Bill Kristol: Fitzgerald 'Out to Discredit Bush Administration'

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Kristol finally attacked Patrick Fitzgerald today for his investigation into the Valerie Plame leak. Expect to see this meme start to permeate into the right wing message center since up until now everyone has either praised the way he handled himself and not attacked his motives. I was wondering why it took him so long to go after Fitzgerald in the first place.

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Kristol: The leak story is absurd, but I now think the whole prosecution is absurd.---I now think it's a politically motivated attempt to wound the Bush administration.

The investigation was called for by the CIA and he forgets the fact that the CIA told Robert Novak not to print Valerie Plame's name in his column. For Bill, lying to the FBI or a grand jury is perfectly fine. He's just worried that Pat has his eye on Rove and Cheney and that scares old PNAC Bill.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/09.html#a7854

[Botany]

1. Fuck you Kristol

Fitz is looking into the lies, slime jobs, smears, media manipulations, and
forgeries that got us into Iraq .... a war that Kristol wanted and worked for
over many years.

I hope Kristol get caught up in Fitz's net.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

That would be Mr. Kristol's signature on the bottom of the 1998 letter
to President Clinton asking for an Iraqi war.

[saltpoint]

2. And there are further revelations concerning the evil Fitzgerald.

To begin with, he's been supplying pro athletes with steroids for at least a decade and in as many cases as possible, personally administers each dose. The collapse of the national pastime may be squarely laid at the feet of one Patrick Fitzgerald.

Also, don't forget: Patrick Fitzgerald brought AIDS to the world. His carnal relations with howler monkeys in the rain forests proved the source of contagion for all of Africa and then later all the world.

And not least, he parks his vehicle in handicapped parking spaces WHEREVER HE GOES.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. LOL!

I heard Fitz has the ability to take the hot air of neocons and turn it into hurricanes, and in fact he goofed, meant to send it out to sea but it ended up hitting the Gulf Coast, and caused Katrina. All by hisself.

[saltpoint]

7. I'M WILLING TO BELIEVE IT!!

[Webster Green]

3. Take that dude away in chains....he's one of the architects of this shit..

PNAC: TRAITORS & WAR CRIMINALS, one and all!

Off to the Hague with that mofo!

[WillyT]

5. Apparently, Kristol Has No Sense Of Irony - Bill, Can You Say Ken Starr ?

Sure... I thought ya could.

:rofl::evilgrin::rofl:

[Burried News]

6. Kristol's aged alot - what's he worried about? The truth is now coming

out faster than they can tell new lies, even half assed lies.

Tell you what Kristol - why don't you take the show to China. You did your number in Russia and now you've done it here. Move onto the next center of civilization and work your magic there.

[sutz12]

8. I kinda thought that....

the administration was doing a pretty decent job of discrediting themselves.

[davidwparker]

9. Me to Kristol. * did that himself.

[EarlG]

10. Hoisted with their own petard once again

If Bill Kristol thinks the "out of control partisan prosecutor" defense is going to fly, he should take a look back at the official statements the White House has made about Fitzgerald.

First of all, Fitzgerald is a Bush appointee, not a Clinton hold-over:

The President intends to nominate Patrick J. Fitzgerald to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Fitzgerald is currently Interim U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, since 1988. During his time in the U.S. Attorneys Office in New York, Fitzgerald served as the Chief of the Organized Crime Unit, National Security Coordinator and a Member of the Attorney General's Critical Incident Response Group. Fitzgerald is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University Law School.

September 19, 2001

And here's what the White House has had to say about Fitzgerald's investigation:

"You hear all kinds of rumors. And the best way to clarify the issue is for full participation with the Justice Department. These are professionals who are professional prosecutors who are leading this investigation, and we look forward to -- look, I want to know. I want to know."

George W. Bush, October 6, 2003

"The President was glad to do his part to cooperate with the investigation. The President was pleased to share whatever information he had with the officials in charge, and answer their questions."

Scott McClellan, June 24, 2005

"Again, I wasn't in the meeting. It was Pat Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney, and his team; the President and the President's lawyer, Jim Sharp. And that's why I said I think that it's best to direct further questions to the officials in charge, because this is an ongoing investigation and we want to do everything we can to help the investigation come to a successful conclusion."

Scott McClellan, June 24, 2004

"I think we all want to see the prosecutors get to the bottom of this matter. The President wants to see the prosecutors get to the bottom of this matter."

Scott McClellan, July 11, 2005

"There's a serious investigation. I'm not going to prejudge the outcome of the investigation."

George W. Bush, October 17, 2005

Q You said the White House is hopeful that Patrick Fitzgerald reaches a successful conclusion. Can you just clarify what you mean by that?

MR. McCLELLAN: That he's able to come to a successful completion to the investigation, and determine the facts and then outline those facts for the American people.

October 18, 2005

Q Okay. Well, let me just ask one more question, a little narrower than what David was asking. What are the President's views of Patrick Fitzgerald as a prosecutor?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, he's previously spoken to that issue and I'll leave it where he left it.

Q Could you just remind me?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, he spoke about that recently and nothing has changed.

Q Because, you know, I have a memory like a sieve and I just tend to forget things from day to day.

MR. McCLELLAN: I don't think anything has changed, in terms of his views. And he's already expressed that.

October 24, 2005

[caledesi]

11. The question for Billy-Boy is:

Do you think Fitz should be fired,like Archibald Cox during Watergate?

That oughta get him!@

[Jack Rabbit]

12. The regime doesn't need Fitzgerald to discredit it

It does that all by itself without any help from anybody.

Speaking of people who do a right good job of discrediting themselves, it might be worth pointing out that Mr. Kristol's fishwrap, The Weekly Standard, is always pretty much the last even semi-respectable place where one finds conspiracy theories about what happened to Saddam's missing WMDs. Whazzup, Bill?

[HuffleClaw]

13. i'm only surprised the pundits waited this long to attack him

they'll be calling him a saddam-loving commie soon enough.