Empty Wheel responds to NYT and Johnston's Fitz attack
(in a post entitled, debunking the runaway prosecutor claims, at daily kos...)
johnston in the nyt...
i'd sure like to see a little bit more flirtation with the hardcore facts when somebody like johnston dishes out implications like he did this morning... particularly when it's in the grey lady...
stick with it, fitz... you're still my hero... Submit To Propeller
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By the time Fitzgerald was appointed, the FBI had already uncovered clear evidence that Libby and Cheney were directly involved in this smear, that Libby had lied to protect Cheney, and that Rove may have coordinated with Novak to cover up his own role. Yet Johnston considers this clear evidence nothing but "nuance"?
johnston in the nyt...
[T]he Fitzgerald critics say, the prosecutor behaved much as did the independent counsels of the 1980's and 1990's who often failed to bring down their quarry on official misconduct charges but pursued highly nuanced accusations of a cover-up.
i'd sure like to see a little bit more flirtation with the hardcore facts when somebody like johnston dishes out implications like he did this morning... particularly when it's in the grey lady...
stick with it, fitz... you're still my hero... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
9/02/2006
