Fitz: "I do not expect to file any further charges... We're all going back to our day jobs."

[Leopolds Ghost]

Comments from the eternally hopeful Pavlovian masses?

I could find similar comments about the failed Iran war
predictions Sy Hersh promulgated, when he should have
been reporting on how the Iran war was stopped over a
year ago. But I'm tired.

I'm sick and tired of people obsessing over issues and
getting each other to expect apocalyptic events that
never happen... and they never say "I was wrong". They
just say "wait and see"... even when it's obvious that
the events they predicted and distracted us all with,
aren't happening.

[emulatorloo]

1. Fitz qualified the statement -- no new charges unless they receive new information

and additionally said

"If (Libby's) counsel or he wish to pursue any options, they can contact us."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=353749&mesg_id=353809

On edit -- So who knows what might happen. Certainly not you or me.

My guess is that Cheney is going to come under some serious pressure politically. And I am not so sure Bush will pardon Libby. Why should he? Cheney is dead weight on the Bush admin now.

And then there is the Wilson's Civil case. . . wonder if any new information will come from that?

Personally I am not surprised that Fitz talks like a lawyer -- very carefully. But then again, I am not looking for a cloud in every silver lining.

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. How do you roll up a conspiracy if the first guy to be convicted willingly takes the fall?

His attorneys asked him to give up Cheney or Rove, and he refused.

As for Iran, the only evidence I see that it's happening is in the
volume of chatter here on DU, which has dropped off precipitously
in recent weeks as evidence has mounted that any push to invade
Iran was stymied by the Joint Chiefs over a year ago, and now that
it's in the media, we're really just arguing over what might have been.

[emulatorloo]

4. Who knows? Libby wasn't a "CONVICTED FELON" then

Maybe those words "CONVICTED FELON" will start rolling around in Scooter's head now that they are a reality.

Maybe it was too abstract for him in the past, when everybody was advising him to roll on Cheney.

But now that he is a CONVICTED FELON maybe some of that advice might start making some sense to him.

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Once you're convicted, you can't strike a plea bargain. Wake up, DU!

When are we going to wake up and realize that certain things we predicted -- Karl Rove's indictment, Cheney's indictment, invasion of Iran -- aren't gonna happen?

Events have caught up with us. Let's not just be silent about the discrepancy and move on to some other shiny new object.

Let's admit that Hersh was wrong about Iran, what's his name was wrong about Rove,

or at least their constant drumbeat on the issue proved to be a self-defeating prophecy,

what Shakespeare termed "a foregone conclusion".

[Lex]

3. Now is the time for Congress to step up and hold hearings

and investigations on the crimes underlying the Libby guilty verdict.