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Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 07:18 PM Mar 2019

Hope not to see Mueller report go this way ...

Patrick Fitzgerald’s Legacy: Letting Rove And Cheney Go


In the Plame case, Fitzgerald prosecuted Libby, then-vice president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, for perjury and obstruction of justice related to the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA operative. But he stopped short of charging Cheney or top presidential adviser Karl Rove — both of whom had been targets of his investigation.

Fitzgerald was appointed as a special prosecutor in late 2003 to investigate the July 2003 leak of Plame’s identity, which came during a White House effort to discredit her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/patrick-fitzgerald-legacy_n_1575631.html
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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,853 posts)
2. I likewise hope not, but the longer this drags on,
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 08:23 PM
Mar 2019

the less confidence I have that anything new is going to happen. My guess is that sometime before the next ice age, Mueller will wrap up his investigation and file a report with Congress. And that's all that will happen.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. For months I woke up every couple of hours checking to see if bush or cheney
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 08:26 PM
Mar 2019

had been locked up. I learned my lesson about expecting too much from special prosecutors.

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
4. I did the same and it was a big lesson about the limits
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:17 AM
Mar 2019

of these investigations ... if the power brokers want it so.

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