Fitzgerald's shoddy investigation deserves no extension.

[miskie]

Seems the spirit of Fitzmas is dead at the dump, why am I not surprised.
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kentuck  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) 
Thu Jan-01-09 01:06 PM

Original message
Fitzgerald's shoddy investigation deserves no extension.
   
We need to let the next US Attorney continue this investigation. Fitzgerald had the Governor of Illinois handcuffed and arrested early in the morning just a couple of weeks ago. They led him out for public display. Then the esteemed US Attorney stood before the microphones and talked about Lincoln rolling over in his grave and the massive corruption and law-breaking that was going on with the governor.

Now we find out, he had nothing. Zilch. But he says he needs 90 more days to complete his investigation. To complete his investigation? He had the Governor handcuffed and displayed as an example of a crooked politician brought to justice. Now he tells us that he doesn't have the evidence and that he needs 90 more days to complete it? Something is wrong with this picture folks.

I say that Patrick Fitzgerald be requested to hand over his resignation before January 20th and that he explain his rationale for his actions. No one has the authority to arrest a Governor of any state unless they have the goods on them at the moment. Not 90 days in the future but right now. If he doesn't resign, he should be fired.

Maybe its just me, but I think DUmmies true feelings center around Fitz getting too close to the Anointed One with his digging, so the investigation needs to be shut down now.

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

I think 0bama should be worried. Fitz is 24-0 in his prosecutions. If he's got his eyes on the whole corrupt IL machine... oh, what a merry Fitzmas it will be!

[Carl]

tularetom  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-01-09 02:06 PM
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24. If Fitz is such a hot shit prosecutor
   How come Karl Rove and Cheney are walking around loose instead of in federal prison awaiting death sentences for treason?

 

[thundley4]

What? The DUmmies don't believe in Fitzmas, anymore?

[Tantal]

As is typically the case, the DUmmies know absolutely nothing about criminal investigations. First, you develop enough probable cause for an arrest, then, once the arrest is made, you have to round up all the other players and get them interviewed. In an investigation such as this, once one investigator asks one question to the wrong guy, he sends up the flares to his cohorts. They scatter like rats, documents start getting shredded, emails deleted, and hard drives mysteriously come up missing. I can see no way to have completed this investigation prior to the arrest without tipping Blago off that he was about to get sacked-up.

[Chris_]

Well!!!

I think the DUmmies should demand William Rivers Pitt and Jason Leopold who used to work at TruthOut.org start an immediate investigation of Fitzmas. 

[USA4ME]

This will be a wonderful opportunity for the kentuck primitive to find out if Il Duce cares about his opinion.  Let's see what happens.

Of course, it would be similar to Nixon firing Archibald Cox, but that is beyond the ability of the primitives to comprehend.

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[franksolich]

When I first learned of the requested delay, I thought "no."

For about one-third of a second.

If granted, it drags things out to April 7, I guess.

Now I'm thinking Fitzgerald should've asked for a much longer delay, six months or a year or two years, so as to prolong this as much as possible.

[delilahmused]

Regardless of what happens, January 20, 2009 the investigation ends.

Cindie