Bush planning to fire Fitzgerald as US attorney for Chicago

[Joanne98]

July 29, 2005 -- Ex-GOP Senator Warns Bush administration planning to fire Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as US Attorney for Chicago. The Chicago Tribune is reporting today that former Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, who championed current CIA leak Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for appointment as US Attorney for Chicago in Sept. 2001, is warning that because of the U.S. Attorney's high profile criminal investigations of former GOP Gov. George Ryan and Democratic Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, he may not be reappointed to his post when his four year term expires in late October. If Bush fails to nominate a replacement and Fitzgerald is not renominated, he will be able to serve as US Attorney until a replacement is named. It may not be coincidental that the Grand Jury investigating top White House officials for leaking the name of a covert CIA agent will also expire in October if it is not re-impaneled on a request by Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald. With the clock potentially running out for Patrick Fitzgerald, if there are indictments in the CIA leak, they will likely be issued within the next few months. Peter Fitzgerald, who is not related to the Special Prosecutor, believes that House Speaker Dennis Hastert, as the dean of the Illinois congressional delegation, will recommend to President Bush that Fitzgerald not be reappointed as U.S. Attorney. It is no secret that top Illinois Republicans, as well as the Daley political machine, are gunning for Patrick Fitzgerald. Daley has been a major supporter of Bush's foreign policy who joined the GOP in criticizing Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin for his remarks about the interrogation tactics used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. It is doubtful Patrick Fitzgerald would be kept on as Special Prosecutor by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales if he is rejected by the White House for a second term as US Prosecutor -- a decision that would be seen as a loss in confidence in Fitzgerald by the Bush administration. The recent resignation of Patrick Fitzgerald's friend, career Justice Department prosecutor James Comey, as Deputy Attorney General -- and Fitzgerald's immediate supervisor -- is also a warning sign that the Bush administration is growing uncomfortable with the direction of Fitzgerald's investigation. Comey is to be replaced by Timothy Flanigan, a conservative GOP political hack and a Federalist Society colleague of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts. Flanigan, along with Roberts, was a member of the 2000 Florida GOP recount team and later the general counsel for the scandal-plagued Tyco Corporation. While at Tyco, Flanigan liaised with tainted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his Greenberg Traurig law firm.

**** Plame leak damaged a major CIA investigation linking senior Bush administration officials to WMD proliferation. U.S. intelligence insiders have pointed out that the White House is using "Rovegate" and "Who in the White House said what to whom?" as a smoke screen to divert attention away from the actual counter-proliferation work Mrs. Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates team were engaged in. The arrival of Timothy Flanigan as Patrick J. Fitzgerald's boss is likely related to the mountains of evidence Fitzgerald has now collected to indict senior White House officials, particularly, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for criminal conspiracy in exposing a sensitive U.S. intelligence operation that was targeting some of their closest political and business associates. Libby, it will be recalled, was the attorney for fugitive global smuggler and multi-bilionaire Marc Rich, someone who has close ties to the Sharon government and Israeli intelligence. It is no coincidence that FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds uncovered nuclear material and narcotics trafficking involving Turkish intermediaries with ties to Israel at the same time Brewster Jennings and the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division was hot on the trail of nuclear proliferators tied to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the A. Q. Khan network of Pakistan.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

[kentuck]

1. Just like the Healthcare Bill, give them enough time...

and they will defeat anything in their paths, they truly believe.

[BrainRants]

2. Do it chimp! Please!

There will be a shitstorm like you've never seen from the press (and perhaps the Dems?) and you will be INSTANTLY and forecver equated to the criminal acts of Nixon and his posse.

The press knows there's a story here, and a reenactment of Nixon's "Black Friday" will free the press to pursue what Fitzgerald found.

He's in a corner, and firing Fitz will be the first step towards putting the word "impeachment" on the lips of Americans.

All of this of course means Fitz is close and indictments are imminent, let's hope he files soon.

[radfringe]

14. for those old enough to remember Nixon years

does it sound kinda like a Saturday night massacre is brewing?

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. For those of us not old enough to directly remember

but who paid attention in US History class, absolutely

[Gman]

3. Holy Shit!

This is bigger than anything anyone ever imagined. Bush doesn't even have to fire Fitzgerald. He can just let his term run out, and the Grand Jury's term and it will all go away.

[mbee]

7. Patrick Fitzgerald will indict, indict, indict before his term runs out or

at least I hope this will be the case. Fitzgerald isn't dumb and he knows Bush is going to want to get rid of him. He has until Oct. so I just hope he has alls his ducks in a row to expose these thugs and put them in jail!

[mopinko]

9. agree. this guy will go down swinging.

i'm glad peter fitz is out there telling the truth. one of the last honest republicans.

[Joanne98]

13. I hope you're right.

[PurityOfEssence]

20. The indictments had better come out of the blue, or they'll fire him first

Yeah, he should build an air-tight case, but he should announce the indictments without letting ANYONE else know about them, including his staff, and he should do so without even calling a press conference. It would be best for him to just walk into a news station and have 'em crank up an ENG crew and take his announcement.

[McCamy Taylor]

22. He seems to have good staff, no leaks. One indictment is all we need.

[bostonbabs]

4. reading this scares me ...the corruption is so thick n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

5. * will probably let Donald Trump do the honors on the opening episode

of "The Apprentice".

[rndmprsn]

6. thanks for posting this...kicked and recommended

[atommom]

8. Once again I have to wonder what country we're living in now!

:(

[rateyes]

10. I wouldn't put anything past this administration, but...

IMVHO, if Bush does this, the Republican party is toast. Talk about bringing back the image of Watergate! When Nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating Watergate, that's when, IMHO the shit hit the fan...it was the beginning of the end. Every Republican who even looks like they are supporting such a move will have a lot of 'splainin' to do.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Puh-leeze, everyone, consider the source here...

Wayne Madsen, whose predictions rarely pan out and tends to be less reliable than Drudge.

First, he's quoting Peter Fitzgerald, who isn't in the loop and is just speculating to get his name in the paper.

The second paragraph is simply guesswork, too.

Let's wait until someone confirms all this before getting all bent out of shape over it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. I am but this one will not surprise me one bit

I have been expecting it for a good while

[mountainvue]

21. It was printed

by The Chicago Tribune.

[Ioo]

12. What a sick group we have...

They will stop at nothing to protect power, if devistating America is the out-come, so be it!

[Jose Diablo]

15. Why isn't Flanigan in jail

Over his involvement in the Tyco fraud?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. My god we are physchic, I have been expecting this

for literally months as thigns get hotter... Saturday Night masacre and bush thinks he can get away with it. Given the evidence of all he has gotten away with... he has a point

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Archibald Cox anyone? Possible but very risky, even with total media lock

The big difference between now and then is GOP has Congress and the press. But...


The GOP is going to have to crank the Diebold machines up to high to churn out fraudlulent votes to keep Congress Republican if they want this one to work, because if they do pull an Archibald Cox and the Dems take either House of Congress in 2006, the WH is toast. The hearings will eat them alive.

With all the ass covering the current administration has on its plate, its a wonder they have time to do any actual governing.

[loudsue]

23. What amazes me about this board is how naive some can be.

With control of all branches of government, the economy, the courts, the voting machines, the media, and with millions of people being hammered with neocon propaganda 24/7, how can you STILL believe that bush wouldn't get away scott free with firing Fitz?

I'm only surprised they haven't already Wellstoned him.

WHEN THE MAFIA RUNS THE COUNTRY, THEY GET THEIR WAY... It's plain and simple.

Fitzgerald has to come out with some POWERFUL indictments... really soon... but, even then, bush is simply going to pardon the whole lot of them, go on national television, and 'splain to the American people that he's pardoning everyone 'cause they had no way of knowin' they were doin' sumpin' wrong. Then, his team in the press will circle the wagons, and everyone goes back to watching American Idol.

:kick::kick::kick: