Patrick Fitzgerald's Fraudulent Partisan Persecution of Libby

Prosecutors and District Attorneys have immense power to destroy innocent lives. They are immune from litigation or prosecution for the unethical misuses of their office. It is for that reason that they bear tremendous responsibility to support the law in an objective and even handed manner. But there are some who abuse their positions.

Years ago, in the wake of the assassination of President Kennedy, a mentally deranged District Attorney named Jim Garrison cooked up a sham case against an innocent man, Clay Shaw. Garrison ruined Clay's life, claiming that Clay was a part of the big right-wing conspiracy that murdered the President. The jury in that trial quickly delivered a verdict of not guilty because the case had no merit. Clay died of cancer soon afterwards, penniless from the expenses of his unjust trial.

More recently, a Democrat activist District Attorney Ronnie Earle shopped several grand juries until he found the right bunch who would indict Republican Congressman Tom Delay on the preposterous charge of illegal campaign contributions. Earle had previously prosecuted another Texas Republican on criminal charges associated with her successful campaign against Democrats, and the case was thrown out on the day of trial. Earle has appeared at Democrat rallies and had publicly bragged that he was going to "get Delay." Earle is as unethical and unprincipled as Jim Garrison was in the misuse of his office to achieve purely personal goals. The Texas Bar should have removed his law license long ago.

A few years ago, I had a Chinese friend, Julian, who was the manager of a homeowners association in the Bay Area. One of the young men who worked for him in a maintenance capacity got into a dispute over drugs with another young man and shot him. The victim survived, but a rogue District Attorney from San Jose, California tried to pin it on my friend, Julian. The DA created a case out of thin air, claiming Julian was a member of the Chinese mafia and ordered the hit because the victim had tried to steal his wallet. Even the victim said the story was "bull shit." Julian was completely innocent and there was no evidence that the DA's fantasy had any merit whatsoever. Again, the jury quickly returned a verdict of "not guilty." Julian escaped a great injustice, but he had to spend his life savings for a defense lawyer, to the tune of $60,000, and undergo a very stressful and traumatic trial, literally for his life.

Why do unethical District Attorneys misuse the law and attempt to convict defendants they know darned well are innocent? The answer is simple: politics. DA's are elected based on their conviction rate, and if that takes cooking a few cases and convicting a few innocent people, well hell, what's more important, their lives or the District Attorney's career?

In Jim Garrison's case, however, insanity was the cause. Garrison was nuts. He had been discharged from the army years before after a psychiatric examination showed he was seriously reality-challenged.

Now we have Patrick Fitzgerald, the partisan Democrat in the Scooter Libby case, who got a good man convicted on three felony counts and who faces a fine of $100,000 and 25 years in jail, and who committed no crime. This Democrat Kangaroo Court had a Democrat judge who ruled that the jury could not be told that no crime had been committed, that Valerie Plame was not a covert CIA agent and not protected by the disclosure law. They also were not informed that Valerie Plame's identity had been disclosed by Richard Armitage, an employee of the State Department, who admitted it. Patrick Fitzgerald knew all of these facts from the outset of the trial. So why did he conduct an investigation of Bush Administration officials? Simply because he wanted to seek out mistakes of memory and call them "perjury" so he could create a case out of thin air where no crime existed. As Tom Delay's website describes it:

In the celebrated case of Mr. Lewis Libby, the prosecution pulled out one of its oldest and most shop-worn tricks. That is: setting up multiple perjury and obstruction of justice traps into which government officials, placed under extraordinary investigatory pressure, might fall.

In other words, Fitzgerald manufactured a crime by his own behavior by which he could "convict" an administration official.

Mark Steyn gives a lot of the facts in his recent column in the Chicago Sun-Times. He says what I have said in these pages - that Pat Fitzgerald, the darling of the Left, sought to bolster his career over the broken life of a decent, innocent man. Fitzgerald is the author of a fraud and an injustice.

Our system of justice is easily corrupted and amenable to the machinations of evil men in the guise of prosecutors. It is by no means perfect. Sometimes it produces results that are clearly unjust and unfair - look at the two border patrol agents who were recently sentenced to long prison terms for merely doing their jobs. Fitzgerald is one of these dishonorable prosecutors - abusing the system for their own selfish ends. But even he will face the final Judge, from whom there is no appeal. May he rot in Hell.

Ann Coulter on Scooter Libby and Democrat Malfeasance

Ann Coulter may sometimes shoot herself in the foot, but when she sticks to facts she is unbeatable. She weighs in today on the Scooter Libby verdict and the Democrats misuse of the judicial system to persecute Republicans. She writes:

Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence.

It was not a crime to reveal Valerie Plame's name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department's Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.

With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with "perjury" and enjoy the fawning media attention.

As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record) was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.

This makes it official: It's illegal to be Republican.

Read the whole article here.

The Criminalization of Politics: The Scooter Libby Verdict

In the latest disgrace to justice, Scooter Libby was found guilty of obstruction of justice in an investigation that should never have happened. The Machiavellian Democrats are experts at using the legal system to punish political opponents, and this is just another case.

Valerie Plame, a Democrat CIA agent, conspired with her leftist husband Joe Wilson to create a false story to undermine Bush just before the 2004 elections. She sent her unemployed hubby on the Government's dime to Niger to investigate the claim that Saddam sought yellow cake for his planned nuclear program. Joe Wilson went to Niger, confirmed that the story was indeed true, then later lied about it to the press, saying that Saddam had not sought yellow cake in Niger, and lo, the whole story was just a Bush lie to get the nation into an unjustified war.

One has to wonder how the Central Intelligence Agency can act as a hostile force to its own government and become a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

When someone leaked the story of the Plame-Wilson bogus Niger investigation, the CIA retaliated by referring the leak to the Justice Department. They claimed that a CIA undercover operative had been outed for partisan political reasons. Actually, the opposite was true: the CIA, and Valerie Plame in particular, had created a bogus investigation and then a bogus charge to Justice for partisan political reasons, showing again how Democrats love their party far more than they love their country.

But Valerie Plame was not an undercover CIA operative: she had been a desk jockey for five years and her privacy in the matter no longer protected by law. Whoever outed her did not commit a crime. Since no crime was committed there should never have been an investigation to begin with. Contrast this travesty with Sandy Berger, the Democrat who stole documents from the National Archives and destroyed them to protect the reputation of his former boss, Bill Clinton. Berger received a fine and temporary suspension of his security clearance, a light punishment for a crime far more serious than the non-crime for which Libby was investigated.

National Review today states flatly that the whole investigation was bogus and that Libby should be pardoned post haste. They said:

There should have been no referral, no special counsel, no indictments, and no trial. The “CIA-leak case” has been a travesty. A good man has paid a very heavy price for the Left's fevers, the media's scandal-mongering, and President Bush's failure to unify his own administration. Justice demands that Bush issue a pardon and lower the curtain on an embarrassing drama that shouldn’t have lasted beyond its opening act.

Read the whole thing here.

The Democrats should think about this. If they are to abuse the judicial system for partisan political reasons, perhaps we Republicans should use it to prosecute real traitors, like the editors of the New York Times, like John Kerry and Hanoi Jane Fonda, for their acts of treason. Let's try them, convict them and retire them to the Gray Bar Hotel. If I remember correctly, there is no statute of limitations on treason. We can always revisit these options when the time is right.

But that wouldn't be partisn politics. That would just be simple justice.