White House Just-Us gave Patrick Fitzgerald ''No Recommendation'' rating!

[Octafish]

We need to get at what we can, like these e-mails, ASAFP. Pat Leahy said, even then, a lot has been left out of them in the form of redactions.

The Worst stuff, they're not telling us about. Smirk, Sneer and Turd Blossom evidently didn't want We the People to know about.

Congress, please ask Patrick Fitzgerald what that is. Perhaps you all can follow up on what you learn while hearing Rove and Harriet Miers under oath.

But remember, whatever is in the emails is NOT the worst of it. Bush does all his dirty dealin' mouth-to-mouth. Monkey doesn't use e-mail. And we know the cheerleader can't write.

Talking is what he knows how to do. And backrubs. It the right way for spies, crooks and criminals to communicate. The spoken word and body language don't leave a paper trail.

No incriminating documents is an important aspect of the main thing Dim Son learned from Poppy: Plausible Deniability.

I heard on NPR that Gonzales doesn't use e-mail, as well. Pendejito caught on fast. He doesn't want to leave an evidentiary trail, either.

So, at present, we can only get to the papers by prosecuting who we can for what we can. That means more ammo for Patrick Fitzgerald or his honest colleagues in the Justice Department.

That also means gathering up the cronies and henchmen. Prosecute their arses, like Libby and Abramoff and Cunningham and De Lay. Then move up -- or should it be "down" -- the food chain toward the bottom dwelling Sneer and Smirk.

I wonder if that is why the White House just-us department gave Fitzgerald a "No Recommendation" rating when evaluating the 93 United States Attorneys. It's ironic as he was under investigation at the time, but it seems Rove wanted to make Fitzgerald USA firing #9?

The reason? Treason.

Documents Show Fitzgerald On U.S. Attorney 'Not Distinguished' List

POSTED: 3:40 pm CDT March 20, 2007
UPDATED: 4:21 pm CDT March 20, 2007

CHICAGO -- U.S. Justice Department documents released this week show Chicago federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was on the list of U.S. attorneys considered for dismissal.

Fitzgerald is the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois. A March 2005 e-mail described Fizgerald in the "not distinguished" category.

The document was written by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson.

Fitzgerald was included among prosecutors doing an inadequate job with ther communities.

However, the 9-11 Commission called Fitzgerald one of the world's best terrorism prosecutors.

CONTINUED...

http://www.nbc5.com/politics/11309297/detail.html

Bush and his warmongering crew lied America into war.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Rated 'Mediocre'

Fitzgerald Has Gone After Terrorists, Republicans And Democrats Alike

Jay Levine
Reporting

(CBS) CHICAGO Documents released this week show Chicago's U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is on the "not distinguished" list.

That means the Attorney General's office considered him a candidate for dismissal. But as CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin believes Fitzgerald should have a much brighter future.

"Patrick Fitzgerald has done a great job as U.S. Attorney. I know he's controversial for some of his decisions but I never believed they were political in nature," Durbin said.

He is known as a hard-as-nails prosecutor who goes after foreign terrorists, Republican governors, Democratic machine politicians, and Washington insiders with equal vigor.

Yet the Bush Administration's evaluation of his record was mediocre.

"It tells you when it came to evaluating U.S. Attorneys in the White House, it had a lot more to do with politics than with their prosecutorial talents," Durbin said.

SNIP...

"We will not go along to a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," Bush said.

SNIP...

When and if Democrats do get to question administration officials, you can bet that among the first questions will be "Who judged Fitzgerald mediocre, and why?"

SOURCE:

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_079221842.html

What else have they lied to us about?



The guy I'd ask is Patrick Fitzgerald.

He sure would make a great Attorney General.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Gonzales had his eye on Fitzgerald waiting for the kill...

[Octafish]

6. Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?

That's a spooky picture, cat_girl25! Fredo's got the look the mafia guys in the movies give to their next victim.

Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?

by James Bovard

DIGG THIS

Alberto Gonzales will soon be ejected from the Justice Department. Bush’s Attorney General has been caught in too many flagrant lies and abuses. The real question is whether Gonzo’s fall will signal the beginning of the end of the Bush reign.

Gonzo’s fall will be widely seen as a result of shenanigans and deceits involving the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys. The White House and top Justice Department officials seem to have colluded to deep-six attorneys who threatened Republican congressmen or appointees. The pending congressional testimony by Gonzo’s former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, could create new problems for the White House.

But Bush is probably in much greater danger from the derailing a Justice Department investigation into Gonzo’s possibly criminality. Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas reported last Thursday at the National Journal web page.

Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the investigation, according to government records and interviews. Bush personally intervened to sideline the Justice Department probe in April 2006 by taking the unusual step of denying investigators the security clearances necessary for their work.

The Justice Department investigation could have exposed on the role of Bush and his top advisors in masterminding a program that some of the federal government’s top experts considered to be clearly illegal. Waas noted, "According to accounts that Gonzales and his aides gave to others in the department, Gonzales did advise Bush on the issue of the OPR inquiry."

Thus, Bush may have knowingly derailed an investigation that could have exposed his own criminal conduct. This may be even too brazen an abuse of power for many Republicans to stomach.

CONTINUED...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard42.html

We may yet see these traitors in prison, where they belong.

[Swamp Rat]

2. I hope Fitzgerald moves all the way up the food chain to King Smirk

:D




:hi:

[Catherine Vincent]

3. LOL! Good one, Swamp!

Booger Bush! :hi:

[Kurovski]

5. Oh man, I think I'm gonna be sick.

:hi:

[Octafish]

7. E Howard Bush

You know, Swamp Rat, I wrote a sci-fi thriller for my creative writing class in my college days. It was called "Slugg City" and involved the mayor of Detroit, an alien slug, and the city water supply. The protagonists were the city's head of propaganda and his swimsuit-model girlfriend from minitrue. The baddies were Mayor Uebberratt and Mr. Slugg. What a hoot seeing your illustration. Great thinks, minds alike and all that, eh wot?

Did you see this, courtesy of DUer JackRiddler?

Watergate plotter may have a last tale

Two of E. Howard Hunt's sons say he knew of rogue CIA agents' plan to kill President Kennedy in 1963.

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-na-hunt20mar20,0,4646144,print.story?coll=cl-books-util



Holy cat.

[wicket]

13. OT -

What are the circumstances of that pic of LBJ & JFK? Thanks!

[Kurovski]

4. K&R.(nt)

[Octafish]

8. Alberto Gonzales, Presidential Enabler

Fitzgerald was just one of the US Attorneys turning over rocks. And every one these honest officials turned over, they found lots and lots of slimy creatures skittering about, scrambling for the cover of darkness.

Turning over rocks is just the opposite of what his boss does. Gonzales hides the Truth. That's why Bush won't let him testify under oath.

Special Report

Rough Justice - The Case Against Alberto Gonzales

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV

Part II: Alberto Gonzales, Presidential Enabler

Three episodes in the career of Alberto R. Gonzales before he became Attorney General of the United States tell us what kind of a job he was likely do as the nation's top attorney at the Justice Department. In each instance, history has not been kind either to Gonzales' actual substantive work or to the ethical and moral judgment he exercised on behalf of his clients at the time. In each case, the advice Gonzales offered -- legally dubious to begin with -- created not just political embarrassment and backlash for his bosses, but unfortunate, even catastrophic results.

Not only did the three pre-Justice Department episodes turn out to be remarkable predictors for his troubled and disappointing tenure as Attorney General -- but many predicted two years ago that they might be. For example, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D.-Vt.) looked Gonzales in the eye at the latter's Senate confirmation hearing in January 2005 and said: "My concern is that during several high-profile matters in your professional career you've appeared to serve as a facilitator rather than as an independent force in the policy-making process."

Gonzales reassured Sen. Leahy -- and anyone else who cared to lodge the same complaint back then -- that he knew the difference between the role he would have to play as Attorney General and those he had played as White House counsel and as counsel to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

But let us judge him by his deeds and not his words. The Attorney General's record at the Justice Department strongly suggests that he has still acted as a docile and dogged "facilitator" for White House initiatives rather than as a wise, high-minded legal counselor willing and able on occasion to exercise independent judgment and power. The roads to the current scandal over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, to the Justice Department's rabid support for warrantless domestic surveillance, and to department's tepid defense of civil liberties for resident aliens all are paved with stones that Gonzales and Bush laid down before the former took the oath of office in early 2005.

For the first two examples, I lean heavily upon the distinguished work of Alan Berlow, who brilliantly chronicled in the July/August 2003 issue of The Atlantic Monthly Gonzales' appallingly unprofessional work on death penalty cases when he was counsel for Gov. Bush. According to Berlow, Gonzales "repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence" (emphasis in original) in a series of memoranda Gonzales prepared for the governor's review as part of the state's clemency process. Berlow believes that this was not mere negligence on the part of Gonzales -- that would have been bad enough -- but rather part of a concerted effort by both men to ensure for both political and ideological reasons that there would be no clemency petitions granted. The dice were loaded, you might say, by the man who now is the nation's top lawyer.

CONTINUED great series...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/benchconference/2007/03/gonzo_part_iithe_presidential_1.html

Bush may yet end up impeached. Then, it's off to The Hague.

[Kurovski]

9. Impeached and then to The Hague...

may it rise to God's ear.

[bleever]

10. There's a whited-out place in a Sampson memo

that bugged me, and I'm wondering if a reference to Fitz might fit in there.

Recommended.

[Octafish]

11. That may be the one...

...The first version released listed the 93 US Attorneys and their monkey house evaluations. A piece of paper or tape was used to block Fitzgerald's evaluation.

The version released yesterday showed that they gave Fitzgerald a non-commital eval. What did young Patrick do? My friend, Wayne Madsen, said Fitzgerald busted mobsters, a GOP governor, a company linking Conrad Black the mob and Henry Kissinger. Oh yeah. He also took on Karl Rove and Co.

[Annces]

12. An independent person is the last thing they want

Everyone had to be a toady.