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This article is an interesting one about the Libby trial, Patrick Fitzgerald and Cheney’s office. First, it mentions that Libby acted calm and easy throughout the trial, often joking with his aides and I’ve got to wonder: how could anyone take it easy while being prosecuted by Patrick Fitzgerald? I’m madly in love with the US Attorney, to be sure, but I just don’t understand how any objective person can take it easy or even appear to take it easy during a trial against him. It would be like a criminal facing off with Vincent Bugliosi and pretending he were just a scrub.

I found this interesting, too, about Patrick Fitzgerald:

The verdict may be in, but the saga is far from over. On June 5, Libby will return to court for sentencing by Judge Reggie Walton, a no-nonsense jurist who metes out tough prison sentences and cuts no slack for white-collar defendants. Libby could get two years. His lawyers will ask that Libby be allowed to remain free while his appeals work their way through the courts. As he has in past prosecutions, Fitzgerald is likely to press for Libby to go straight to prison. “Fitz is so by-the- book he would send his own mother to jail,” joked a veteran federal prosecutor who asked not to be identified talking about his colleague.

That’s the way it should be.

The article closes by mentioning that Bush is unlikely to pardon him until after the 2008 elections, which I predicted, but blames the Cheney office for the whole ordeal saying that they “crossed the line” and Rove merely tip-toed it.

With that kind of camaraderie, I can’t imagine what staff meetings are like.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).