April 06, 2004

The Plame affair....
Posted by Jon Henke

Let's remember this bit from Josh Marshall. In a post about "Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney from Chicago running the Plame investigation", he writes....

I'm told this isn't the first time he's done a leak investigation of the Bush White House.

This earlier investigation, which was in 2002, grew out of Fitzgerald's investigation of a series of Muslim charities accused of having ties to terrorism -- the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation, and the Benevolence International Foundation.

My point isn't that the White House did something else wrong. In fact, I'm told that in this case the White House really hadn't done anything improper at all.

But Fitzgerald was pissed and apparently went after them very aggressively -- and this for a case in which, I'm told, there really wasn't much to go after.[emphasis added]

So, Ashcroft appointed a real bulldog who has it in for the Bush administration...who will even pursue them doggedly when there's "no there there". Huh. How about that.

Something to remember, the next time the Bush administration is accused of trying to "bury the investigation", sweep it "under the carpet", or simply not care.

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If I remember correctly, for some reason US senator Peter Fitzgerald (R)picked the other Fitzgerald as US Attorney. I remember because it is funny that they both have the same name.

Posted by: Frank Castle at April 6, 2004 07:32 AM