Patrick Fitzgerald, bully

October 10, 2005

How worried is the White House about Plame-related indictments? They’ve resorted to calling the special prosecutor names.

As top Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up. But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear that the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, is intent on issuing indictments. “Fitzgerald’s office, although very professional, has been very aggressive in pursuing people,” the adviser said. “These guys are bullies, and they threaten you.”

Now, from context, this makes it sound like Rove is the one whining about Fitzgerald’s office, but I’m going to assume the “adviser” quoted is one of the unnamed White House aides.

Regardless, this is just a hair shy of pathetic. Fitzgerald is running a thorough criminal investigation of the White House, where staffers leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent in order to cover up their own lies about the war in Iraq. And the Bush gang wants to call Fitzgerald’s office bullies?

Isn’t that tantamount to Bush making fun of someone for using poor grammar?

It’s a measure of the clout the prosecutor and grand jury actually have. If it weren’t for that, if they were just like the rest of us citizens, the Bush crowd wouldn’t bother to call them anything. Just write them off as “little people” or “troublesome gants”. Nice to see them come up against something real for once. Not that war, hurricanes, etc. aren’t real, but they’re not (except as photo ops) for Bubble Boy and his lackies.

  • These people call others what they are, really. That’s the pattern. Up is down. Black is white.

  • I would bet dollars to donuts that Bushboy has in fact taunted stutterers or other grammatically challenged individuals before…

  • So Rove is ready to testify for the fourth time.

    Do you suppose he has got all his lies straight this time?

    No doubt his mind has been working overtime to weave a believable scenario.

    Because the question here isn’t: Did he do it?
    We know he did.
    His behavior preceeds him.

    The question is: Can Rove fabricate enough clever air-tight lies to prevent the cover-up from being cracked?

    That’s where this is at right now.

    In other words:

    Can Rove’s superior mendacity overcome the tendency of complicated human lies to unravel?

  • How thoroughly pissed off is the WH that they can’t get any dirty leaks out of Fitzgerald’s office? In a normal Rove/White House operation the whole investigation would have been shoved into a meatgrinder by now. Everyone connected to Fitzgerald would find their reputations shredded, swiftboated, and their careers marginalized. But so far the only things Rove, Libby and Miller have to share, they really don’t want to talk about.

    A thoroughly professional investigation, I’d say.

  • Going after someone who had an illicit affair with a White House intern? Now that’s being a bully.

    Going after someone who leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent? Now that’s doing one’s job. Of course, nobody in the Bush administration wouldn’t know anything about that. Doing one’s job, that is.

  • “Regardless, this is just a hair shy of pathetic.”

    Mr. Carpetbagger, you are truly one of the fairest, most evenhanded and most gentlemanly of Bloggers.

    IMHO, this is like ten Don King wigs worth of hair beyond pathetic.

    These guys are like a forlorn mooing cow with one of it’s hooves stuck in a cattleguard watching while all the other cows leave it at sundown as they head back to the barn to get fed. That’s almost how pathetic they are.

  • Then again, there is the pathetic Portuguese Man-O-War which is washed helplessly up on the beach about 20 feet from the waterline. It’s pathetically out of luck but make the mistake of stepping on one of the trailing tentacles spread out on the sand and you will still get badly stung.

    Out of luck but not dead yet.

  • Fitzgerald and his staff are bullies – take it from me. They are really thugs – even if someone so much as looks at them funny they come after you like you plotted murder. I thought I was being interviewed by mob enforcers when they came after me for just writing a social note.

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