The Fitzgerald Government
New York Sun Editorial
April 7, 2006
The most astonishing thing in Patrick Fitzgerald's latest filing in his case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is not his disclosure that Mr. Libby told a grand jury that it was President Bush himself who authorized the publication of the government's heretofore secret belief that Saddam Hussein was seeking to acquire uranium, though that was plenty astonishing. It was first reported early in the morning yesterday in a dispatch on the online edition of the Sun by our Joshua Gerstein. The eruption of interest on the World Wide Web was so great that it engulfed our newly upgraded server and shut www.nysun.com for much of the day. The surge of interest no doubt stemmed from the prospect that Mr. Bush himself might be implicated in wrongdoing, but what is really astonishing is what Mr. Fitzgerald's disclosures suggest about his conception as to who is the government.
The charges handed up against Mr. Libby were for perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements, though the investigation was launched into possible violations of the law for disclosing the identity of Valerie Plame, the CIA official who had sent her husband, Joseph Wilson, on a government mission to Niger from which he returned to launch an attack on the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. When Mr. Libby was indicted and resigned from his position, he began seeking the evidence to which the Constitution of the United States, in the due process clause, entitles him. He filed a motion about the scope of discovery, the kind of legal document to which little drama ordinarily attaches.
Mr. Fitzgerald's response to Mr. Libby's motion was nothing short of jaw-dropping in the brazenness with which it assaults logic and constitutional norms. Mr. Fitzgerald asked Judge Reggie Walton to deny Mr. Libby's access to information about the Wilson mission because, the special prosecutor writes in the motion, "it is premised on relevance arguments which overlook the fact that defendant is charged with perjury, not a conspiracy to commit various other crimes." Mr. Fitzgerald claims the documents Mr. Libby is asking for go "far beyond the scope of what is relevant to the charges contained in the indictment."
more bullshit....
http://www.nysun.com/article/30644All I can say is that their servers must suck.
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