The Ghost of Fitzmas Past

With the inevitable arrest of Governor Blagojevich of Illinois, there is, of course, a lot of speculation regarding the extent of Barrack Obama's relationship and communications with this product of the idiocy of Illinois voters. It has also brought about the opportunity for another sad example of political disingenuousness to once again rear its ugly head: Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

In November of 2005, the political lexicon was treated to a new holiday: Fitzmas.

For those who need a reminder, Fitzmas was the embodiment of the irrational giddiness felt by liberal moonbats who sought to promote Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the Valerie Plame affair into a claim that the President conspired to leak the identity of a former CIA employee in order to smear her husband, the former ambassador Joseph Wilson, because he later criticized the grounds for the Iraq war.

But it didn't work out as they planned. The President wasn't indicted. Dick Cheney wasn't indicted. Karl Rove wasn't indicted. The leaker, much to the dismay of moonbats far and wide, was an employee of Colin Powell by the name of Richard Armitage. What was even worse was that Patrick Fitzgerald found out that it was Armitage a mere two weeks into an investigation that took the better part of two years.

Two years.

And what did Fitzgerald have to show for it? A process crime brought about during an investigation that should have ended two weeks after it started.

The moment Patrick Fitzgerald found out that it was Richard Armitage who confessed to leaking Plame's identity only two weeks into the investigation, the matter should have ended on the spot. Instead, he ignored Armitage and ends up prosecuting Libby because he asserted that Libby was lying when he could not answer for sure about exact dates and the order in which conversations took place, where they took place or what the circumstances were that initiated those conversations. Hell, couple that with asking for specific details on matters that are months or even years old, and you could probably convict virtually every person alive for giving answers that are incorrect or contradict one another.

Now, also understand this: The entire time that the investigation went on beyond that point, we were all treated to all manners of conspiracy theories about how this all came down as an order from the President and Vice-President! It was Karl Rove who did it! They tried to out Plame as revenge!

Only none of that was true.

The entire time that the Bush Administration was being accused of all manner of treasonous acts in outing a supposedly "covert" agent, Patrick Fitzgerald, knowing full well that it was Armitage, questioned Libby, Rove and other Administration officials at length regarding the details of who they spoke to and when...questions meant to find the answer he already had.

The worst part about this entire fiasco was that after all was said and done, with Libby hung out to dry, Fitzgerald closed the case, brought no charges against anyone else, pranced away and left the entire central focus of the investigation unpunished and abandoned. After the trial was ended, we were all treated to the confused and angry exclamations on the part of jurors about how they wanted to know why they weren't going after Rove, or what about questions regarding the war in Iraq? Why wasn't the President and VP charged with anything? Then after convicting Libby, a number of jurors came out and felt that Libby deserved to be pardoned!

If neither the President, VP or Rove were specifically under investigation, and the jury was informed by Fitzgerald as to who they were focusing the investigation on, where would a supposedly impartial jury get the idea that someone else was going to be brought to court, or ever expect questions be asked beyond the scope of the trial? It's simple: That DC jury went into that courtroom with expectations that were fostered by every moonbat conspiracy theory that had been feeding the media with speculation and baseless accusations for over two years. How many of you remember people claiming inside information that Rove was to be indicted any minute and Libby was going to turn in Cheney, only it turned out that all of it was bogus?

Liberals whipped their base into a frenzy and used this case as a foothold to point towards the "culture of corruption" platform that they used as a campaign slogan all the way up to the 2006 elections. They used it as a character attack on countless occasions against both the President and VP, knowing full well that because it involved an active judicial case, they were not allowed to comment on anything. There is little doubt that between this event and the outing of Mark Foley, you have the very foundation upon which the 2006 elections turned.

So the result? Armitage walked, Fitzgerald did nothing about it and not one person who made false accusations about Rove, Cheney or the President concerning this case ever got called on it, but what does the truth matter so long as you win elections, right?

Fitzgerald supposedly set out to find the leaker, found out early into the investigation that it was Armitage, then proceeded to conduct the whole affair as if he hadn't found what he was looking for to begin with.

Fitzgerald should have been disbarred and brought to trial for abusing his role as a prosecutor, as he acted in no less of a dishonorable manner than that other ass-bite, Mike NiFong, the democrat party District Attorney who intentionally sought to promote false charges of rape against innocent students of Duke University to secure the black vote during a close election. Upon close inspection, the two are virtually no different in that both prosecutors had evidence early into their investigations that showed that the premise for their investigations was unfounded, yet they refused to act on that evidence. One gets disbarred and the other prances away without even charging the guilty person for the so-called crime he was charged with finding.

So...for any of you conservatives out there looking to promote this guy now out of sense of SchadenFreude simply because he is taking out yet another corrupt liberal democrat from Illinois, just remember: Patrick Fitzgerald proved before that he is just another political hack from the same corrupt Illinois/Chicago political machine as Blagojevich. Fitzgerald told newspapers to sit on the story for months prior to the presidential election and intentionally closed the investigation sooner in order to prevent felonies from being committed. His abrupt ending of the investigation limited the number of counts against Blagojevich to such an extent that he only needed to post bail at an amount of less than $5000. Fitzgerald's timing in this haste arrest and the mad dash being made to impeach Blagojevich is yet another example of partisan, political expediency in the name of saving yet another liberal Illinois democrat from potential embarrassment and scandal: Barrack Hussein Obama.