After all the GOP lies this week

I hope Fitzgerald has gotten his Irish up. Please let it be!

they have served up a banquet of bullshit this week, and not just those subtle manipulations of the truth - it's been all-out bald-faced lying this week.

We can only hope.

pleasure a few times in my practice, in Court, under oath, and it is a darned close second to great sex.

if he were not onto something pretty big.

My money is on Scooter Libby, for one, but I really hope some others go down with him...

the government needs an enema to flush that criminal, treasonous, thieving, hypocritical, greedy, whoring gop.

THEN Fitzgerald can get his Irish up.

The Valerie Plame Grand Jury Investigation in 2004

The Plame investigation took a quantum leap in December 2003, when Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself. Ashcroft's deputy appointed a special counsel, who has powers and authority tantamount to those of the attorney general himself. That means, in practice, that Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney from Chicago, does not report to the Justice Department regarding his investigation. (In this sense, Fitzgerald's position is similar to that of an Independent Counsel under the now-defunct independent counsel statute.)

Those familiar with Fitzgerald's inquiry tell me that the investigative team of attorneys is principally from his office in Chicago, and that they do not really know their way around the workings of Washington. This has resulted in an investigation that is being handled Chicago-style - not D.C.-style. That's significant because in Washington, there is more of a courtesy and protocol toward power than exists in the Windy City.

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Instead, it seems the investigators are seeking to connect up with, and then speak with, persons who have links to and from the leaked information - and those persons, it seems, probably include the President. (I should stress, however, that I do not have access to grand jury testimony, and that grand jury proceedings are secret. But the facts that are properly public do allow some inference and commentary about what likely is occurring in the grand jury.)

Undoubtedly, those from the White House have been asked if they spoke with the president about the leak. It appears that one or more of them may indeed have done so. .

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040604.html