Another indication of an administration badly in need of foresight: If you're gonna try to scam the system, you'd better have all your players in place.

And a lesson for everyone else: Keep the "troops" in the Justice Department non-partisan.

Patrick Fitzgerald.

About Fitzgerald, but you don't have to look at his judicial record much to see that he's about as far from being partisan as you can get in the current political climate. He's devoted a lot of time and energy to fighting corruption on both sides of the aisle.

ummm, that's a colon, not a semicolon

Way to go, Patrick Fitzgerald-at last someone with ethics, integrity and courage.

When do we get him to prosecute the others in the administration??

He'll make a great Special Prosecutor! Do it, Democrats! Do it now!

Not that I say

Libby is innocent,

But,

I do not know if you noticed,

the American public got shafted.

Libby is the sacrificial Lamb,

Thrown to the masses,

As a sacramental, symbolic, figurative sign

(scape goat)

that justice was served

And all of you swallowed it.

The real Criminals are still in Office,

Full of Power,

And Mal-Office-sense,

and the almighty prosecutor

is but an accomplice.

The foundation of Justice

is not punishment

but Remedy

and no wrongs have been righted

none. . .

I doubt any wrong,

will ever be!

It's a perfectly placed colon ( : ) not a semi-colon ( ;)

In any case, it's admirable.

Barbara Guetti

a perfectly placed semi colon, you're just looking in the wrong place. Reread the last sentence.

second to the last sentence (d'oh)

As long as people like Fitzgerald uphold the fundamental values that keep checks and balances in the American system.

Unfortunately there is no easy way for him to investigate the neocon cabal that brought us the Iraq war of choice under false pretenses.

Doesn't matter how long the judge gives him. We all know he will be pardoned before he ever has to step inside a prison. Nobody in this administration ever pays for breaking the law...nobody.

Wow..the injustice...37 months for Scooter because Valerie Plame can no longer perform her "undercover CIA operations" i.e. attending Swanky Washington parties to uncover gossip critical to the nations interest...Ya ya ya, I know it's for "perjury"...If Scooter gets 37 months then what should the ABC reporter/leaker of the covert operations in Iran get? We all know Valerie's "career" has been comprimised but the ABC news leak could potentially comprimes someone's life...

Say hello to post incarceration 'think tank'.

'37 months for Scooter because Valerie Plame can no longer perform her "undercover CIA operations" i.e. attending Swanky Washington parties to uncover gossip critical to the nations interest'

Ahem. The original crime was the destruction of a part of the CIA dealing with WMD. Her career is hosed.

So are all the informers in the middle east she used to go visit under the cover of being an Ambassador's wife.

So are all the other CIA agents who are under cover as Ambassador's wives or husbands.

So is everybody else at the cover company that she pretended to work for - everybody there was CIA, and everybody there is hosed.

Now, I don't know how the CIA does this, but maybe the coworkers of other Ambassador's wives also got hosed, and their informants, etc etc. I don't know how far it goes. The CIA doesn't talk about it. The CIA doesn't talk about anything, that's always been the policy.

The Republicans are taking advantage of this when they make up bogus stories like Valerie Plame did her spying at Washington coctail parties. It's obvious that they don't give a shit about our operational intelligence networks - when they need 'facts', they'll just manufacture whatever they need themselves.

He couldn't make the plame case.

With most reporters abdicating their responsibility and a handful being involved in the

CIA leak coverup (turning Watergate on its head), writer par excellence Fitzgerald

should be in line for a Pulitzer Prize.

I was thinking that Libby ought to get what Brian Dennehy's sheriff in "Silverado" called "a first class hanging".

OK I was kidding. A little.

They still do hangings in UT.

Truly, just kidding.

Patrick Fitzgerald should be the next US Attorney General, and I hope the next democratically elected President (which I suspect will be a Democrat) will so nominate him for that post. The truth is, we could use him at the post now, but the bad guys that he couldn't hang won't have that.

Please pardon the Old West metaphors. They're hard to avoid when we have a John Wayne wannabe in the Oval Office.

"Bravo, Prosecutor Pat. Bravo."

Don't undermine the guy's dignity by calling him PAT. It's PATRICK.

In one sentence--no semicolon necessary--he went from a man to a fag.

Almost immediately after you were appointed, you learned that Richard Armitage was the source who provided the name of Valerie Plame to Robert Novak, whose now-infamous column published her name and identified her in connection with her husband's CIA tasking to Niger.

Knowing that fact, can you describe what was your thinking in pursuing an investigation so far-flung that it involved the jailing of former NYT reporter Judth Miller, and ultimately resulted in the prosecution of Scooter Libby. You determined at some point that there would be no prosecution for the original concern of the CIA; namely, the revelation of the operative's name. When did you make that determination? What was the basis for that determination?

Also, Mr. Ftizgerald, you have a personal history with Mr. Libby. He represented the interest of Marc Rich, whom you were involved with prosecuting in the Southern District of New York.

You have refused to appear before Congress to answer questions about all of these facts related to your service as Special Prosecutor. Why your refusal to answer questions?