Fitzgerald speaks in metaphor

[ellisonz]

From the Fitzgerald statement:

This grand jury's term has expired by statute; it could not be extended. But it's in ordinary course to keep a grand jury open to consider other matters, and that's what we will be doing.

Let me then ask your next question: Well, why is this a leak investigation that doesn't result in a charge? I've been trying to think about how to explain this, so let me try. I know baseball analogies are the fad these days. Let me try something.

If you saw a baseball game and you saw a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball and hit a batter right smack in the head, and it really, really hurt them, you'd want to know why the pitcher did that. And you'd wonder whether or not the person just reared back and decided, I've got bad blood with this batter. He hit two home runs off me. I'm just going to hit him in the head as hard as I can.

You also might wonder whether or not the pitcher just let go of the ball or his foot slipped, and he had no idea to throw the ball anywhere near the batter's head. And there's lots of shades of gray in between.

You might learn that you wanted to hit the batter in the back and it hit him in the head because he moved. You might want to throw it under his chin, but it ended up hitting him on the head.

You might learn that you wanted to hit the batter in the back and it hit him in the head because he moved. You might want to throw it under his chin, but it ended up hitting him on the head.


And what you'd want to do is have as much information as you could. You'd want to know: What happened in the dugout? Was this guy complaining about the person he threw at? Did he talk to anyone else? What was he thinking? How does he react? All those things you'd want to know.

And then you'd make a decision as to whether this person should be banned from baseball, whether they should be suspended, whether you should do nothing at all and just say, Hey, the person threw a bad pitch. Get over it.

In this case, it's a lot more serious than baseball. And the damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.

---------

What do you think?

If I'm George W. Bush I'd be wishing I'd never entered politics much less baseball or oil right about now. Fitz is the pitcher the administration is the batter and when Fitz throws his pitch it is for all of us. He's not going to stop at Libby, he's going for the jugular, he's going for the President.

I think that if Libby squels in trial, the next domino will be Rove on conspiracy charges and obstruction of justice. Once you put Rove under oath at his own trial he's going to be in a corner and the President is brought into the loop. Either Rove plays fascist sycophant and stands tall for the President or he folds and Bush resigns for the good of his party.

[lostnfound]

1. IMO He's NOT going for the President; he's going for whoever is guilty

of exposing the classified identity of a CIA agent. If the president didn't know anything about it, Fitzpatrick doesn't even WANT to touch him, because he seems so passionate about doing his job fairly.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. That's AMAZING.

Really, really nice.

Go Fitz!!

:yourock: