Republicans are wrong: Left wing peasants gather around the White House “windmill” with torches and axe handles

Democrats are wrong: ::crickets::

Is he somehow immune from such scrutiny? Is it not even remotely possible that he is engaged in some unethical activities.

For cryin’ out loud, what is whith you lefties? You tore Ken Starr apart for four years.

Too classic. You are not attacking the prosecutor but you do want to raise the possibility that some prosecutors have been known to abuse their powers in order to entrap otherwise innocent people. Just something we all should keep that in mind if and when Fitzgerald hands down his indictments even though all evidence points to the fact that Fitzgerald is a well respected, by-the-book lawyer. Unlike Ken Starr, who was a prime example of the kind of prosecutor you so lament. But no one has ever suggested that Fitzgerald is that kind of prosecutor but we should remember he might be because perjury is a gotcha charge, unless it isn’t, but in this case it probably might be, even though you respect the judicial process, except when prosecutors abuse their power, which this one might, even though we don’t know that he will, which everyone who knows him personally and professionally says he won’t, but he might, according to you and a handful of partisand hacks from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson to Sean Hannity. Does that about sum up your profound hypothetical challenge?

And yes, if Martha Stewart lied to investigators she deserved what she got. So, by the way, did Bill Clinton despite the fact that Starr was indeed a prosecutor on a wild goose chase. Where Fitzgerald has kept his investigation tighter than drum, Starr’s leaked like a sieve as he helped Republicans, along with a complicit media, in their attempt to score maximum political damage from the investigation long before any indictment was handed down. But none of that matters because Clinton still lied under oath and it was a dumb, dumb, dumb thing to do. And he paid the price. You don’t lie under oath. Simple as that.

Let me ask you this Tuco. Would you care to offer up a situation in which it would be okay for a public servant to lie to a grand jury? I’d love to hear it.

Fitz has run a brilliant investigation so far in terms of how little actually leaks. I wonder if he enjoys watching the interested parties on both sides of the aisle as they squirm with anticipation or anxiety.

Wilbur: No one is saying that at all. if the only indoctments that come down are for perjury it means that the prosecutor either believed that the underlying offense was not committed or that there was insufficient evidence to support such a prosecution. The flip side of your argument is that OJ was innocent because he was found not guilty.

buma: I don’t doubt that you are correct — the GOP will pull out all the stops. I equally don’t doubt that if there are no indictments, the Democrats will pull out all the stops.

I keep thinking that this is all happening because of that girl who bloodied the 9-year-old Rove’s nose because he had a Nixon bumper sticker on his bicycle in 1960. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11143-2004May8?language=printer

It appears here that the prosecutor will be unable to indict anyone for the underlying crime (i.e., leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent) but could bring indictments for lying during the course of his investigation.

didn’t think so. weak, troll. next.

Note her written statement regarding the perjury charge against Bubba.

“I was reminded as well, however, that the laws of our Country are applicable to us all, including the President, and they must be obeyed. The concept of equal justice under law and the importance of absolute truth in legal proceedings is the foundation of our justice system in the courts.”

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.statements/hutchison.html

My, how the righteous have fallen !

For starters this morning. Looks like Senator Frist may have known more about the value of his stock portfolio than he let on earlier. I don’t know about you but I am positively shocked. An appellate decision will cause RIM

It is very interesting that many republicans are now tacitly admitting that Kenneth Starr ranged far and wide in his investigation because he felt he needed some kind of charge to justify his waste of $70 million tax payer dollars. So far as we know at this point, Fitzgerald has not given up investigating actual crimes to move on to politically embarrassing adulterous behavior of participants.