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Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Sampson: I suggested firing Patrick Fitzgerald

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  • Thursday, March 29, 2007 01:20 PM

    There is something really really unhealthy/sick/vindictive in their obvious disregard of the people involved ...

    to totally fucking up peoples' lives and careers ... "playing god" in such an inexact "unscientific" manner ... just because they could ...

    Aside from Plame, Fitzgerald's work on local corruption has been groundbreaking and long long long overdue from what I've read ... corruption is like dry rot, it sucks the life out of communities -- and as far as I'm aware Fitzgerald's work has had NOTHING to do with Republicans ...

    No, SAY IT WITH ME, it wouldn't have been "illegal" for them to fire Fitzgerald, but -- as with the others --it would be extraordinarlly wasteful, breath-takingly capricious, and generally "suspect," a violation of the "good faith" that if you work hard and produce results, you get to finish what you've started.

    Actually, I been thinking it's amazing the 8 so solidly resisted the pressure from "above" ... I suspect there will be books and quite possibly strong careers ahead ... too bad they're all republicans. Perhaps they will be the nexus of the New IMPROVED Republican party ... or they'll defect ...

    Six degrees of separation, these 8 must have literally hundreds of friends and colleagues seething over how they were treated -- Rove boo-boo'd big time.

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