Fitzing Scooter Libby

In the other non-story designed to make friends and influence elections, Our Hero Patrick ``the prosecutor`s prosecutor`` Fitzgerald is seeking to limit the evidence which Scooter Libby can present in his defense.

Libby wants to introduce a large volume of classified documents into evidence to show what he was engaged in at the time of his inadvertent (and late) disclosure of Valerie Plame as a CIA employee. His point is, of course, that his memory of events is probably sketchy, due to his enormous workload.

Big Dog Fitz is very displeased by this, claiming this is an attempt to mislead:

Fitzgerald wrote that Libby's proposals for introducing classified information are "so extraordinary both in breadth ... and in depth" that the evidence takes on "a misleading aura, is confusing" if presented to a jury.

Now, if that isn`t the pot calling the kettle black! Fitzgerald knew from the start of this investigation that Libby was not the leaker, and he set up a perjury trap to get him anyway. He gave a press conference where he suggested that Karl Rove was guilty of nefarious crimes when he knew full well that Richard Armitage-no friend of his former employers-was the guilty party. He has wasted huge amounts of taxpayer dollars in a partisan witchhunt and is proceeding with the prosecution of an innocent man for a non-crime (Valerie Plame was not a covert agent, and her husband did more to``out`` her than anyone.)

Who is trying to mislead and confuse?

It`s never good when your name becomes a verb; generally that involves a great deal of shame. Patrick Fitzgerald deserves to be verbed for his dishonesty and wreckless prosecutorial abuses. I propose the word Fitz-to legally attack an innocent person and drag him or her through the mire for partisan reasons or self-aggrandizement. They`re fitzing Denny Hastert, for instance. It rolls off the tongue nicely, and describes what would require a sentence to explain.

I think it`s time we fitz the Special Prosecutor.