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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:36 PM
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Who else is chomping at the bit waiting for the Plamegate indictments?
I'm certain they're coming, for a number of reasons, but I admit I'm getting a tad impatient. Do you think it will happen within the next few weeks?
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:36 PM
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1. yes
by the end of the month.

disclaimer: i am always wrong about these things.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:43 PM
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2. I'm not holding my breath. I doubt anybody will be indicted.
Everything is being covered up. Cheney, Halliburton, lies....
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:50 PM
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6. Actually, I'm virtually certain there will be
The prosecutor is not a Bush pawn.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:44 PM
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3. I don't think they will come out until after the legal challenges...
are finished re the subpoenas for the 2 media people. I wonder if those challenges will go all the way to the USSC?
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:48 PM
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4. Won't that take months?
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 12:49 PM by lancdem
Will Fitzgerald wait that long? I'm under the impression he doesn't fool around.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:59 PM
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7. I think it depends on whether what he needs to hear from the reporters...
is simply corroborating testimony or if they are essential to his case. Given that I read something about subpoenas go to the media only if the prosecution cannot get the evidence elsewhere but I don't know if that applies here or not.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:49 PM
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5. I love My Country ,, Of course I'm waiting for Justice and our
Rule of Law to prevail
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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:02 PM
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8. Timing is everything.
We have to be patient. I don't want to just see indictments. I want convictions. And Pat Fitzgerald seems to be a decisive, methodical, prosecutor with a specialty in... TERRORISM.

A short bio:

Fitzgerald attended parochial schools, including Regis High School, where he was awarded a full scholarship. He earned his B.A. from Amherst College in economics and mathematics in 1982. He worked his way through college as a janitor and a doorman during the summers and held a variety of on-campus jobs during the academic year. He received several academic scholarships at Amherst and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship in Law at graduation. In 1985, he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he taught economics and interned in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

<snip>

In 1988, Fitzgerald became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York. He began his prosecutorial career by handling significant drug trafficking cases, including United States v. Munoz (nine defendants) and prosecuting major heroin smuggling rings, United States v. Rivera and United States v. Yui Keung Tsoi.

In 1993, Fitzgerald and another lawyer prosecuted John Gambino, a capo of the Gambino Crime Family and three other members of the Gambino Crime Family crew for murder, racketeering, gambling, narcotics trafficking, loan-sharking, and bid-rigging. The defendants were ultimately convicted of a variety of racketeering charges, including murder. For his work on the case, the Justice Department honored Fitzgerald with its Director’s Award for Superior Performance.

From January through June 1994, Fitzgerald was Chief of the Narcotics Unit of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In June of 1994, he became counsel in the prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other defendants, who were accused of a seditious conspiracy involving the bombing of the World Trade Center and a plot to bomb the United Nations, the FBI Building in New York, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The nine-month trial resulted in convictions and led to Fitzgerald and his co-counsel receiving the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the Justice Department’s highest award. The United States Court of Appeals noted that Fitzgerald and his co-counsel "conducted themselves in the best traditions of the high standards of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York."

more...

http://fitzgerald.senate.gov/usattorney/patfitzgerald.htm

I think he'll get the goods.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:08 PM
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9. I'm champing at the bit
ok, chomping is correct, too, but I'm old fashioned...!
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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:30 PM
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10. It is going to happen
If there was no chance, then Bush NEVER would of hired a criminal lawyer the same day that Tenet announced(or was forced) his resignation.
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mithnanthy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:40 PM
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11. I can't wait for this to be exposed!
I've had enough of their crimes...I want Justice!
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:42 PM
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12. I hope it happens!
I might believe in the United States' checks and balances again.
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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:43 PM
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13. This was TREASON committed in the Oval Office
of course there will be indictments! The sooner the better for our country.
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:45 PM
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14. I can't wait to see this...
I hope Novak...excuse me..."NoFacts"...is sweating like a pig in a slaughterhouse right now...I hope he's frightend as hell...!
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:51 PM
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15. WQho cares about Novak?
He's probly basically covered by reporters' confidentiality anyway. I wanna see Scooter, Karl, Dick & George squirm.

And more than squirm. Cry, maybe, as they find their narcissistic little selves led off to a new home with concrete walls.
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