My concerns regarding Fitz

[NoBushSpokenHere]

Could MSM just be feeding us a line when they write about how unlikely Fitz would be to take a pay off? Has anyone verified his background besides the MSM? Are they just telling us he is honest so we won't suspect foul play if no indictments?





Hopefully, this is just pre-indictment jitters on my part.

[napi21]

1. There has been a lot of his background posted here on DU.

In every past case, he has done his job, without regard to politics or how bog or small a "fish" the accused was.

This time, I think the MSM is telling the truth.

Their only complaint about him is that he doesn't leak information to them, and of course they're not happy about that.

[emulatorloo]

2. why dont you do some research on him before accusing him of crime

start here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301028_pf.html

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washingtonpost.com
Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is
A Tough Investigation Is Also Praised as Nonpartisan
By Peter Slevin and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, October 24, 2005; A03


CHICAGO, Oct. 23 -- Patrick J. Fitzgerald's final witness was behind bars, refusing to testify, and no one was budging. Hunting for room to maneuver, the special counsel talked with one side, then the other. He drafted a letter that nudged the witness and needled I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff.

Three days later, Libby put fingers to keyboard and told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that she was freed from her promise to protect his identity. He praised her mightily and urged her to "come back to work -- and life." Satisfied, she quit jail after 85 days, testified to Fitzgerald's grand jury and surrendered details she had vowed never to reveal.

Miller's testimony carried Fitzgerald one step closer to the climax of his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name, an inquiry that a federal judge termed "exhaustive" and President Bush called "dignified." In typical fashion, the Chicago prosecutor interceded personally, with a blend of toughness and flexibility, and pocketed what he needed.

Fitzgerald's most difficult and contentious choices -- whether to seek criminal charges -- remain to be announced, possibly this week. Yet in a case with huge political stakes for the White House, a portrait is emerging of a special counsel with no discernible political bent who prepared the ground with painstaking sleuthing and cold-eyed lawyering.

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[NoBushSpokenHere]

4. I would like to believe all the MSM reports I have read

but I am cautious when it comes to MSM reports. That was my point. No, I was not accusing him of anything, I am just asking and hoping that we have not been lied to once again by the right wing media. Believe me, I want to believe...........but part of me is scared to. Like I said this morning, just pre-indictment jitters on my part, I hope.

[Lerkfish]

3. from what I have seen, I'm MORE concerned about something happening

TO fitz than I am concerned that fitz would fold.

like a convenient wellstone crash or a well-placed political end run around the indictments.

[cassiepriam]

6. Yes I think that more of a concern.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. No way he would accept much less be offered!

<<When defense attorney Ron Safer heard that Patrick Fitzgerald would lead an inquiry into the leak of a CIA operative's name, his first thought was that, from the Bush administration's perspective, "they could not have picked a worse person.">>

The man is a zealot for the truth!