{"id":184202,"date":"2012-07-07T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/07\/yes-this-is-worth-breaking-my-embargo-of-huffpo\/"},"modified":"2012-07-07T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:56:00","slug":"yes-this-is-worth-breaking-my-embargo-of-huffpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/07\/yes-this-is-worth-breaking-my-embargo-of-huffpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, This is Worth Breaking My Embargo of HuffPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invaluable Dan Froomkin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/07\/03\/patrick-fitzgerald-legacy_n_1575631.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&amp;src=sp&amp;comm_ref=false#sb=116702,b=facebook\">looks at Patrick Fitzgerald&#8217;s record as a prosecutor<\/a>, and concludes that he went out of his way to avoid a serious investigation of the people at the top of the pyramid:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald\u2019s prosecution of former CIA officer John Kiriakou for talking to journalists about the Bush\/Cheney torture program has at least one thing in common with his conviction of I. Lewis (\u201cScooter\u201d) Libby in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, Fitzgerald went for the little fish. But the big fish got away. (See related story on the Kiriakou case.)<\/p>\n<p>In the Plame case, Fitzgerald prosecuted Libby, then-vice president Dick Cheney\u2019s chief of staff, for perjury and obstruction of justice related to the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson\u2019s identity as a covert CIA operative. But he stopped short of charging Cheney or top presidential adviser Karl Rove &#8212; both of whom had been targets of his investigation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that FBI investigators thought that they had Rove completely nailed, and that Cheney was at significant risk of indictment, but that Fitzgerald backed off.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he was appointed by a Republican president on the recommendation of a Republican senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invaluable Dan Froomkin looks at Patrick Fitzgerald&#8217;s record as a prosecutor, and concludes that he went out of his way to avoid a serious investigation of the people at the top of the pyramid: U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald\u2019s prosecution of former CIA officer John Kiriakou for talking to journalists about the Bush\/Cheney torture program &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1102,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-intelligence","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}