More Lies From the Washington Post

One doesn't have to read very far into a Post article to find lies these days, as in:

"security breach involving Plame's work as an undercover CIA officer"

Once again the same old thoroughly disproven lies keep cropping up. One might begin to believe that Post reporters like R. Jeffrey Smith have a political agenda. Imagine that, a biased reporter at the Washington Post.

Cheney's Suspected Role in Security Breach Drove Fitzgerald

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; Page A06

In a small room on the third floor of the D.C. federal courthouse in late March 2004, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stood before I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and asked him three separate times whether his boss, Vice President Cheney, had discussed telling reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.

The question was not insignificant for Fitzgerald, who saw his mission as revealing the full chain of events behind the security breach involving Plame's work as an undercover CIA officer. Fitzgerald was unconvinced by Libby's response that even though he "may have" had such a conversation with Cheney, it probably occurred after Plame's identity had been revealed in a newspaper column.

Fitzgerald would respond with great frustration in his summation at Libby's trial almost three years later, saying that Libby's lies had effectively prevented him from learning about all of Cheney's actions in the administration's campaign to undermine Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

More than he had previously, Fitzgerald made clear in those remarks that his search for the truth about Cheney was a key ambition in his probe and that his inability to get it was a key provocation for Libby's indictment. Although Cheney was the target, Fitzgerald's investigation could not reach him because of Libby's duplicity.

Is it proper for a federal prosecuter to be seeking a conviction out of some personal fit of pique? This whole Fitzgerald affair reeks of revenge and self-justification. He knew who leaked Valerie Plame's name from the outset. He should never have sent the FBI to question Libby or anyone else. Once Armitage's name was known and along with that the fact that this was not an effort to "undermine Plame's husband," Wimpy Wilson the investigation should have been terminated.

From the beginning Fitzgerald has been more interested in making a name for himself than he has in seeking the truth. There was no plot to out Valerie Plame (as if, as a none covert status clerk, she could have been outed). This whole business has been a witch hunt, a search for a crime that was never committed. Fitzgerald should be fired and disbarred for malpractice and entrapment.

Attorney General Gonzales should be tossed out the door right behind him.

I sure wish President Bush would "grow a pair" and do what is right in this thing rather than what is expedient.

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