Fitzgerald’s Rebuttal

Today I happily make my return to blogging with just a couple of quoted sentences. Today saw closing arguments in the Libby trial. And after years of reading between the lines of Fitzgerald's memos and press releases and questions, we finally find him tipping his hand.

He's been after Dick all along, and the Libby thing was an attempted triangulation on the old bastard just like Fitz did in the Illinois governor case and other RICO cases. What I would have given to have been in the court room to hear Fitz articulate each vowel and consonant. (To think, I was in DC all weekend and should have just stayed a day longer).

Anyway, here is the moment I've thought was coming for some time...


Libby Live: Fitzgerald’s Rebuttal (from emptywheel's indispensible live-blogging of the trial)

"There is a cloud over the VP. He wrote those columns, he had those meetings, He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy. Where Plame was discussed. That cloud remains because the denfendant obstructed justice. That cloud was there. That cloud is something that we just can't pretend isn't there."