Patrick Fitzgerald x 2! Great Info on Fitzgerald's New Crime Busting Boss

[writes2000]

I've always felt Comey (who's been overseeing Fitzgerald) was one the good guys. This makes him one of the great guys.

Looks like he named the perfect person to back up Fitzgerald on this case. Is it just a coincidence that just like Fitzgerald, his new boss has made his career busting up the mob.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/14/1039/31676

I'm thrilled!

[Octafish]

1. Career Justice Department Attorney Named Firewall

Thanks for the link, writes2000! It is a good reminder that there are still many good people in government -- despite the pretzeldunce.

From WayneMadsenreport.com:

August 13, 2005 -- Career Justice Department attorney named firewall between Special Prosecutor and Attorney General. In another sign that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has uncovered some serious criminal wrongdoing in the investigation of the White House leak of Valerie Plame and her non-official cover network tracking weapons of mass destruction proliferation, outgoing Deputy Attorney General James Comey appointed career Justice Department attorney and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis as the person who will broadly oversee Fitzgerald's investigation. Margolis has served as Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section and head of the Strike Force Against Organized Crime and he is considered a top organized crime buster by his colleagues. The Margolis appointment is significant since President Bush announced that Timothy E. Flanigan would replace Comey. Flanigan's links to recently indicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff has Democrats and Republicans questioning Flanigan's suitability for the number two job at Justice. There was also a Newsweek report that Bush Yale/Skull & Bones classmate Robert McCallum would be named as Fitzgerald's overseer. With Comey trumping the White House by naming Margolis, a 40 year Justice Department veteran whose portfolio includes the Abscam investigation of powerful politicians, it now appears that the McCallum story was floated by the White House as an attempt to intimidate Fitzgerald. Career Justice Department prosecutors view the Margolis appointment as an indication that Comey wants to protect his friend Fitzgerald from White House pressure as preperations for indictments of at least two White House officials are in their final stages.

SOURCE:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

The wheels of these traitors' bus are coming off.

[robertpaulsen]

3. Thanks Octafish! This is fantastic news.

And thank you writes2000 for your OP, I nominated it right away. Yet another reason why I think Fitz is UNTOUCHABLE!

Saturday Night Massacre? BRING IT ON! Why Fitzgerald is UNTOUCHABLE.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4298833

[BamaBecky]

11. Hot Dog!...n/t

[lostnfound]

14. Don't get too excited. Iran contra coverup?

Think of him as part of the containment squad.
http://denverpost.ezboard.com/fdenverpostnewsfrm8.showM...
Lee Radek has been Chief of the Public Integrity Section for a very long time. He has acted with his confederates within the DoJ, namely Dave Margolis, then Chief of the Domestic Criminal Section and Mark Richards, then Chief of the International Criminal Section of the DoJ. These three men, operating under the auspices of Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger, essentially managed the Iran-Contra Cover-up for the Department of Justice.

I have talked with Dave Margolis several times. The only thing he ever did was threaten me. He would say to me that if I revealed anything to congressional committees, or if I leaked any thing out into the press, that I would be subject to all sorts of unpleasant things. Everything was "national security" with these guys.

...
Radek, Margolis, Richards and Scruggs were all involved in the so-called Reagan-Bush kidnapping policies that started in 1986 and were extant until 1991. It involved kidnapping both US and foreign citizens on foreign soil. After the US Supreme Court in its 1986 landmark decision gave the administration the right to use "extralegal" procedures to bring foreign fugitives before American courts. There were 21 in all who were kidnapped, mostly those who were under indictment for cocaine trafficking in the United States. The commonality is that all of these cocaine traffickers were controlled by the CIA. In their own defense, they had all begun to leak out information to Congress and the media about their connections to the CIA. That's why they were targeted for kidnapping.

[BamaBecky]

15. Dad Gumit!..n/t

[Octafish]

19. The guy's devoted his life to public service. Of course he's a crook.

You make a good point and I agree with Al Martin -- I believe the original source of the Indy Media article your link once went to -- on a lot of things, including some of the stuff he's got on Operation SLEDGEHAMMER and Margolis. The guy helped scramble the eggs of a bunch of senior DEMs in the ABSCAM sting, as well as adding his brainpower to the Iran-Contra cover-up.

Check out the excerpt From the Catbird-Seat:

http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/TheMercenaries.htm

As a colleague of Armitage, it doesn't mean Margolis is dealing with the Hmnong generals or covering-up the Mena OP stateside. These turds seem ALL to be in the shit up to their armpits. And, BTW, Armitage also is buddy-buddy with Richard Clarke, as was the late John P. O'Neill.

So, if Margolis seems less-than-perfect, that may be OK. He was washed through the FBI-CIA interface, making his resume somewhat tainted. But if he really was a lot less than honest, he'd've left office long ago and gone to work for ENRON, Global Crossing or Carlisle Group like the rest of the scalliwags.

My thing is he's a career DoJ fellah. Certainly, he's not built in the image of Robert F. Kennedy. But it seems he's not the guy Bushler wanted in the job -- and that, to me, means something.

David Margolis
Associate Deputy Attorney General
Office of the Deputy Attorney General

Throughout his extraordinary public service, Mr. Margolis has served with honor and distinction. He has become the Department of Justice’s embodiment of integrity, determination, and judgment. Of particular note, he set up the process by which the Department’s disciplinary system for its lawyers has been opened to public scrutiny thereby fostering public confidence and at the same time assuring that the important privacy rights of federal employees are protected. In addition, Mr. Margolis was instrumental in helping to develop and implement one of the Department’s most important ethical initiatives, the formation of the Professional Responsibility Advisory Board, which provides Department attorneys with consistent training and guidance on professional responsibility issues. It is a measure both of Mr. Margolis’ integrity and of the high esteem in which he is held within the Department that Mr. Margolis was selected to be the Professional Responsibility Advisory Board’s first chairperson.

http://www.opm.gov/ses/dea02jus.asp

The guy looks like a chemistry teacher, which means, yes, he's into drugs. So, he's got to be honest.

[robertpaulsen]

20. Thank you Octafish, for putting this info into perspective.

Not just for explaining his relationship to Iran-Contra, as well as his ties to Armitage, Clarke and O'Neill. I appreciate your humor with the chemistry teacher remark. I was wondering what dailykos was talking about with the Willie Nelson t-shirts. Now I know. :smoke:

[Octafish]

23. Anytime, Brother Robert! This stuff is too confusing to track alone.

Seeing your handle reminds me that we truly are strong. And thanks to your dedication and hard work, we've pegged the bedwetters of the BFEE for what they are -- Traitors. And how did we do that? By using the weapon they fear most -- the TRUTH!

It wasn't always that way. When scuzzbucket Poppy ran for prez versus Pruneface Reagan, I remember thinking how criminal it was that the former head of America's secret police (Gestapo) could run for president.

So I wasn't too surprised at the October Surprise, John Hinckley and later Iran-Contra falling all over Pruneface and falling off of Bush's Teflon.

What had bothered me since then was how few other people were bothered by that fact. In fact, the mass media queued up to blather Poppy on, ignoring the sins of the head of Dope Inc, Money Laundering Inc, Murder Inc, Oil Inc, Gold Inc, War Inc, Corporate Corruption Inc and of course, Treason Inc.

And that's why I appreciate your friendship, robretpaulsen: Working together we've got their Octopus running scared. They've taken to firing good Generals like Kevin Byrne and George Casey. Thanks to you, DU and the Internets, the rest of the Pentagon knows what that means.

[Octafish]

25. Forgot to add my point...

... which idiotically left out of the previous reply and didn't want you to miss, Brother Robert:

The Spook rank-and-file know that Bush is a nutjob.

Remember the 11 "former" and "retired" CIA officers who came out in July to hang together with Valerie Plame at a public forum? One of them is a guy named Jim Marcinkowski. I know someone's brother-in-law who once spoke with him on the telephone for an unrelated matter. The guy's a rock-ribbed Republican who got into the lawyering and political business in richie-rich Oakland County, Michigan after "leaving" CIA.

When a guy like THAT comes out in the open to support one publicly identified by the White House as a pariah, says what Fitzgerald has found points not just to "high crimes and misdemeanors." His investigation, it seems, has uncovered traitors occupying the White House and Congress.

If this is so, no matter what the political persuasion, honest Americans and even less-than-honest politicians alike will be coming together in droves with torches and pitchforks. And that's also why we need to be extra cautious from here on -- Bush is in a corner, trapped. That's when Hitler types become most dangerous.

[lostnfound]

31. Wow.

This is making my brain hurt.
You're cheering me up. But considering the Armitage connection, and the http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=6934">latest Sibel Edmonds interview about the state department..I wonder whether Margolis's job will be to contain the Plame leak to that which betrayed the CIA (i.e., the jeopardizing of agents by outing Brewster-Jennings) and not permit the investigation to open up into questions of the underlying betrayal of the nation as a whole (i.e., the reason for shutting down Brewster-Jennings).

[flyarm]

26. yes i have been looking him up and have seen him mentioned

in the iran-contra cover-up in a few palces..makes me dang nervous!

[G_j]

16. good to hear!

exactly what is needed in this case, some tough cookies!

[warrens]

22. oooo, this is COOOOOOL

Bush has to actually fire the guy now. Great gamesmanship.

[Independent_Liberal]

2. Kick!

[RagAss]

4. This investigation has really been out of the news lately, anything new??

[kestrel91316]

6. I am sure Fitz has new news every single day, but he's too

smart and ethical to leak it.

[AnnInLa]

18. Yes, Murray Waas has new article out in Village Voice...Ashcroft

http://villagevoice.com/news/0533,waasweb1,66861,2.html

great read, must read, interesting read

[pacalo]

5. Excellent!

[AuntiBush]

7. Kicked! I'm hoping for a Speedy Miracle, here!

Got the Nu-ke jitters, badly! This world can't withstand that. Come on Fitz and Grand Jury. We need hero's like now, please...

[Gay Green]

9. Same here!

For not only do I have the Nuke jitters, I also have the Nazi Gas Chamber jitters! :scared:

[AuntiBush]

12. Yeekee. You're not alone, Gay Green.

Chin-up... I know, I know, do as I say, not as I do. But if words of comfort are the best we can lend one another out here, so be it.

Hang. That's what I'm doing in between praying, cursing, praying more, crying, fits of anger and some... then getting on here and venting.

Peace, you here!

P.S. Are you on the east coast like me?:yoiks:

[goforit]

8. I thought he had a part in the part in the Iran Cover-up.

This wouldn't be good.

[Rebellious Republican]

17. I believe you may be correct........

“Since (Bush-appointee Richard) Armitage is currently the Under Secretary of State, he is in charge of the Foreign Narcotics Control Office of the State Department, which is supposed to control cocaine and heroin…. The famous quote by Kerry Committee senior panel member Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (D-Hawaii) should be noted. When Armitage was put under oath, he kept calling him (Armitage) "Mr. Cocaine" instead of "Mr. Secretary…."

“Armitage was also a member of the restricted access group known as RAG-1 (Restricted Access Group One) along with Elliott Abrams, Clair George, Attorney General Ed Meese,David Margolis, Chief of Domestic Criminal Operations of the Department of Justice, and Mark Richards, Chief of the International Criminal Division of the Department of Justice… The purpose of RAG-1 was first to develop and then to coordinate the CIA’s policy of trafficking in narcotics on a large-scale basis, in order to produce ongoing covert revenue streams pursuant to the aid and sustenance of illegal operations of state.

“Richard Armitage coordinated CIA heroin trafficking principally out of Cambodia and Laos, and he was a close confederate of General Huang Soong, the CIA’s principal (narcotics) trafficker in Cambodia…. (Note: Bush certainly knew about Armitage’s sordid history when he appointed him. In fact, Bush may have done so to further his own, personally frustrated reach within the black budget community, which has excluded presidents from its prized technology secrets)
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/106834.shtml

The Public Integrity Section's real purpose is to act as a unit within a much larger political liability control mechanism within the Department of Justice. The Public Integrity Section also acts to coordinate the management and suppression of information and the management of political liability with other federal agencies.

Lee Radek has been Chief of the Public Integrity Section for a very long time. He has acted with his confederates within the DoJ, namely Dave Margolis , then Chief of the Domestic Criminal Section and Mark Richards, then Chief of the International Criminal Section of the DoJ. These three men, operating under the auspices of Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger, essentially managed the Iran-Contra Cover-up for the Department of Justice.

I have talked with Dave Margolis several times. The only thing he ever did was threaten me. He would say to me that if I revealed anything to congressional committees, or if I leaked any thing out into the press, that I would be subject to all sorts of unpleasant things. Everything was "national security" with these guys.
http://denverpost.ezboard.com/fdenverpostnewsfrm8.showMessage?topicID=103.topic

[wli]

21. Margolis was knee-deep in the Iran-Contra coverup?

This is bad news.

[goforit]

29. Hmmmm..thanks for the links. Interesting style of business.

Looks like maffia deals all over the place.
And this guy knows how to deal.

[flyarm]

27. he did have a part in inran contra..in the cover-up! n/t

[BamaBecky]

10. Now I'm giddy! Thanks God for this!...n/t

[sattahipdeep]

13. Fitzgerald is their hero ...

Appointed by Buzzard Ashcroft Nominated by Buzzard Bush....

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfizgerald.html

Lockheed Martin....James Comey :shrug:

[crispini]

28. Fitz was not appointed by Ashcroft, he was appointed by Comey.

Are you saying Comey has Lockheed Martin connections? first I've heard of it, got a link?

[sattahipdeep]

32. Focus....

Patrick J. Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois on September 1, 2001. Mr. Fitzgerald was initially
appointed on an interim basis by Attorney General John Ashcroft before being
nominated by President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed his
nomination by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001, and President Bush signed
his commission on October 29, 2001.

....
Mr. Fitzgerald served on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee
from 2001-2005, and he remains Chair of that Committee's sub-committee on terrorism.
He is also a member of the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force.
In December 2003, he was named Special Counsel to investigate the alleged disclosure
of the identity of a purported employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfizgerald.html

We have caught the government lying to us. What will you do about it?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050805_v080505db-0431copyj-1-515h.html

[proud patriot]

24. YEAH !

:woohoo:

[earth mom]

30. My fingers and toes are crossed that Fitz will kick some butt

VERY VERY VERY soon. I hope he is safe right now.

Been trying to think positively and stay in the realm of light and love...which is the total opposite of the evil that we are facing...

Sending good vibes to the good people here on DU....

:grouphug: