Fitzgerald's search for the truth about Cheney was a key ambition in his probe

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601969.html

BEHIND THE PROSECUTION
Cheney's Suspected Role in Security Breach Drove Fitzgerald

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; Page A06

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Fitzgerald would respond with great frustration in his summation at Libby's trial almost three years later, saying that Libby's lies had effectively prevented him from learning about all of Cheney's actions in the administration's campaign to undermine Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

More than he had previously, Fitzgerald made clear in those remarks that his search for the truth about Cheney was a key ambition in his probe, and that his inability to get it was a key provocation for Libby's indictment. Although Cheney was the target, Fitzgerald's investigation could not reach him because of Libby's duplicity.

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The jury's verdict addresses Fitzgerald's first conclusion -- that Libby lied deliberately and did not misspeak from faulty memory. But the trial showed that the prosecutor finished his investigation with his mind made up that Libby's account was meant to hide his own involvement as well as to conceal the potential involvement of the vice president.

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There was, he said, "a cloud over what the vice president did" during the period before Novak's column was published, and it was created by testimony about Cheney directing Libby and others at the White House to disseminate information on Wilson and Wilson's criticisms.

"We didn't put that cloud there. That cloud remains because the defendant obstructed justice and lied about what happened," Fitzgerald added.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Fitzgerald is One Impressive Dude

He's the only person in our country who has seriously kicked Bush's ass.

Bush is like the weather - everyone complains, nobody does anything effective. Except Fitz. God bless him.

[tridim]

2. Reading between the lines it's obvious he wants Congress to act

Let's make them.

[dajoki]

5. Congress will do whatever...

it wants. We can protest, write letters, make phone calls, etc. When it comes down to it all we can do is vote, and hope they are counted.

[babylonsister]

3. Fitzgerald wanted the truth, and got a reasonable facsimile of it.

We now know who was involved, though I wish it had come out what the ulterior motives were.
But a man in search of the truth-what a concept! It's so rare that when I see it, it smacks me in the head!

[illinoisprogressive]

4. i always felt Fitz was gunning for Cheney