On the American Thinker, J. Peter Mulhern makes a bold charge:
Patrick Fitzgerald is a disgrace both to the legal profession and to the human race. His partisan allies, such as Senator Chuck Schumer and certain nameless bureaucrats at the CIA, are beneath contempt. The jury was unfit for its task, because it was apparently both prejudiced and intellectually incapable of noticing that the prosecution had no case. The trial judge lacked either the wit to see a gross miscarriage of justice unfolding before his eyes or the courage to stop it. But ultimate responsibility for Fitzgerald’s outrageous misconduct lies with his boss.
An unfit jury, that is powerful statement and damning inditement of the American judicial system, if true.
Yet the evidence says Mulhern is right, from the transcript of Chris Matthews, via Drudge:
MSNBC host Chris Matthews spoke with Libby juror Ann Redington on HARDBALL. Juror [#10] says she would support a Bush pardon for Libby.Transcript:Chris: You’re for a pardon out of sympathy for the defendant.Ann: Yeah, I think in the big picture, um, it kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.Chris: Which is the leaking of a CIA agents name.Ann: Exactly.
Pardon me. Valerie Plame agent! Patrick Fitzgerald never alleged that Plame was an agent, out of court much or less in court. Fiizgerald described Plame as CIA employee. For all we know that means clerk-typist. Fitzgerald knew that Plame’s name leaked by Richard Armitage, but never charged Armitage with anything. As it was beyond the scope of his case, Fiztgerald never presented any evidence that Plame was a covert agent. The trial judge, Reggie Walton, professed not to know if Plame was an agent or not. Yet for some reason, Ann Redington, and her ten cohorts, reached their verdict on a belief which was simply beyond the scope of the trial, for which no evidence was presented and appears to a product of Redington’s et al imagination. To put it bluntly, the jury was deluded.
Ann Coulter argues “It’s illegal to be Republican.” I for one would like to see the DOJ investigate Fitzgerald and I reccomend Clarice Feldman ?
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