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Here is the man rail roaded by another upstanding guy everyone said was a straight shooter, Patrick Fitzgerald...who turned out to be nothing more than a hatchet man for the left...
Blog: Scooter Libby reinstated to the bar
If you have forgotten the details of the preposterous proceedings against him initiated by James Comey’s appointed counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, here’s a primer. In short, he was convicted of having a different memory of conversations from those of the late Tim Russert and Matt Cooper, the husband (since separated) of Mandy Grunwald, then and now a close Hillary Clinton aide, months after these conversations occurred. While it has often been misreported that he leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the leaker was Colin Powell’s deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, something known to Fitzgerald from the outset. Whether Comey was apprised of this fact or when is not known.
The Daily Caller quotes former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova on this development:
Washington D.C.-based former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova believes the Libby decision is a “terrible blow” to FBI Director James Comey, who announced Sunday that the agency had no new conclusions on Hillary Clinton and her private server from the 650,000 new emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
“Scooter Libby was restored to the practice of law by the DC court of appeals because they believed that Scooter Libby presented evidence that his original trial had been corrupted by false testimony. And that false testimony was coerced by Jim Comey’s friend Patrick Fitzgerald and Comey was part of the team to destroy the vice president of the United States and it didn’t happen,” DiGenova said.
He added,” It’s such a smack in the face to Jim Comey. Comey and Fitzgerald tried to frame Scooter Libby, and they did, but then they didn’t get it done. And then of course that idiot George W. Bush didn’t give him a pardon he only commuted his sentence.”
In his petition to the court, Libby argued that he met all the standards set forth for such reinstatement to practice and, among other things, quoted from the witness (then N.Y. Times reporter) Judith Miller’s book, later written about a conversation she’d had with Libby.
In that book, Miller recanted her former testimony, indicating she’d been confused when she read the notes that she’d relied upon in testifying, and that, in fact, “Libby had not mentioned” Plame to her on the day in question.
Peter Berkowitz wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
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Blog: Scooter Libby reinstated to the bar
If you have forgotten the details of the preposterous proceedings against him initiated by James Comey’s appointed counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, here’s a primer. In short, he was convicted of having a different memory of conversations from those of the late Tim Russert and Matt Cooper, the husband (since separated) of Mandy Grunwald, then and now a close Hillary Clinton aide, months after these conversations occurred. While it has often been misreported that he leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the leaker was Colin Powell’s deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, something known to Fitzgerald from the outset. Whether Comey was apprised of this fact or when is not known.
The Daily Caller quotes former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova on this development:
Washington D.C.-based former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova believes the Libby decision is a “terrible blow” to FBI Director James Comey, who announced Sunday that the agency had no new conclusions on Hillary Clinton and her private server from the 650,000 new emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
“Scooter Libby was restored to the practice of law by the DC court of appeals because they believed that Scooter Libby presented evidence that his original trial had been corrupted by false testimony. And that false testimony was coerced by Jim Comey’s friend Patrick Fitzgerald and Comey was part of the team to destroy the vice president of the United States and it didn’t happen,” DiGenova said.
He added,” It’s such a smack in the face to Jim Comey. Comey and Fitzgerald tried to frame Scooter Libby, and they did, but then they didn’t get it done. And then of course that idiot George W. Bush didn’t give him a pardon he only commuted his sentence.”
In his petition to the court, Libby argued that he met all the standards set forth for such reinstatement to practice and, among other things, quoted from the witness (then N.Y. Times reporter) Judith Miller’s book, later written about a conversation she’d had with Libby.
In that book, Miller recanted her former testimony, indicating she’d been confused when she read the notes that she’d relied upon in testifying, and that, in fact, “Libby had not mentioned” Plame to her on the day in question.
Peter Berkowitz wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
Read more: Blog: Scooter Libby reinstated to the bar
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
