I gather that the RW is starting to trash Fitzgerald.

[Jackpine Radical]

I got that from a poster on another thread, and haven't seen any instances yet myself, but if this is so, I think it can mean only one thing.

They're trying to defang the public uproar that might result from having Speedy Gonzales fire Fitzgerald from the Special Prosecutor job. Remember Archibald Cox & the Oct 1973 Saturday Night Massacre.

[smoogatz]

1. If so, it's utterly predictable

This goes higher than Rove, I'm telling you. He's just the consigliare.

[distantearlywarning]

2. I was actually wondering when this would happen.

And if he turns out to be completely impeccable, they'll just make up lies about him. And who's to say otherwise when our press are all apparently on the WH payroll.

I pity Fitzgerald at this moment.

[Jersey Devil]

3. Yep - WSJ calls him an "unguided missile"

"But now Mr. Fitzgerald has become an unguided missile, holding reporters in contempt for not disclosing their sources even as it becomes clearer all the time that no underlying crime was at issue."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006955

[fob]

5. "no underlying crime was at issue"? So the WSJ seems to say that

the jury is already back with an acquittal and Fitzgerald is unaware of it?

Ay-fucking-Yay

[Hamlette]

6. of course the WSJ forgets Starr was appointed to investigate White water.

and ended up as the ultimate unguided missile.

We should just say, "We remember what happens when a special prosecutor goes off script. We feel your pain."

[H2O Man]

4. Since you mentioned that

possibility about a week ago, I've been wondering if it might happen. It was one of the strangest events of the Watergate crisis, and really marked the greatest threat to the Constitution in the entire scandal. I am convinced this administration is capable of far, far worse things.

[shraby]

8. If Fitzgerald is smart about it, he'll bring

indictments within a day or two after Cooper's testimony. Then if they fire him, he'll have the charges and the seriousness of them in front of the public.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. It's a recurrent thought of mine.

If all else fails, pull the plug on the prosecutor & appoint Ted Olson or Jim Baker or somebody to wrap it up.

[Corgigal]

7. I doubt he gives a damn

He has kept his information close to the vest and because of that he's very dangerous to them. A man doing an ethical job who can't be bought in today's America.

[Al-CIAda]

9. The Corporaganda press cannot allow this lying us into a war cut into

profits!