question, does fitzgeralds job as special prosecutor need to be renewed?

[still_one]

[applegrove]

1. Al long as he needs.

[still_one]

2. sorry, are you saying the prosecutor says when its over?

thanks

[applegrove]

3. Who else can say : we have enough, not enough, and our investigation

is at an end? Who says that? Someone on the supreme court? An investigator? As long as his findings are still judge worthy..it is the prosecutor & his direct bosses who say. In this case his direct boss would have to be someone outside the Attorney Generals office.

Let's hope it is a lawyer of some sort.

[still_one]

4. thanks. I suspect when he comes up with the indictments

* will immediately pardon those involved

[applegrove]

7. Of course if the crimes are continuing..and the investigation is bigger

than we think..and a danger of them being repeated...the investigation should never end.

Does it ever end on the mob?

Does it ever end on anyone who continues to lie to investigators?

Nope.

[Lannes]

5. I thought it was the judge handling the case

[applegrove]

8. As the case moves forward - a judge has the right to make judgements.

But if we are talking about the investigation.. the lawyers & investigators know what is what. And when they are at a successful conclusion of the case. If someone lied to the investigators..that is a whole other set of crimes.

You do not just drop 'a whole bunch of crimes' until you are at a dead end.

[jsamuel]

6. no, his job in Chicago needs to be renewed, not his job as the special

prosecutor in the Plame case.

[still_one]

9. that is what I thought

Mike Malloy implied that bush does NOT have to renew his term

Thanks