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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (714047)	11/18/2005 5:10:10 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here is a serious answer to your serious question..part of which is in my prior post. If justice is to be served and the system is to function, then citizens should come forward if they have information about a suspected crime or investigation. Not to make the analogy too wild, but the old idea that the mob could keep the witnesses to crime silent out of fear brings the integrity of the system into question. That can't be allowed to happen. In the present case everyone in Washington D.C. knew what Fitzgerald was lookng for...and the date of the June 2003 Woodwar/Mr. X conference is certainly relevant...maybe it could have saved Libby (but I doubt it). Fitzgerald can't subpeona 50,000 people..he needs to rely on the good will of the people and, very important here, the instructions of the President of the United States to his staff to "fully cooperate". If I had been a White House staffer and had ever heard or spoken the name "Plame" or "Wilson's wife in CIA" I would have been putting a call into Fitzgerald. i meet with one of his investigators, state what I heard at the cocktail party (or whatever) and go home. Maybe I am asked to sign an affidavit, maybe not. But I complied with the President's directive. Then, when Fitzgerald has ALL the information, the grand jury acts. That didn't happen here. Too bad. And again, Libby doesn't get to decide if he will obstruct justice on something he does not think is a crime. Not his choice. I do fully recognize that this entire matter may be a mistake for Fitzgerald. Or may not. I do think it interesting that a pro like him is still digging.