Who is Fitzgerald Protecting?

U.S. District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is known as a tough, unrelenting prosecutor. It was Fitzgerald who prosecuted Scooter Libby, using the barest of trails of evidence. Fitzgerald does not, it seems, make many mistakes. All his moves are carefully calculated.

If all his moves are calculated, then his premature charges against Rod Blagojevich, and the press that followed, were very curious choices. Fitzgerald essentially ended his investigation early, and stopped any further illegal activity in its tracks. But, an actual crime is easier to prosecute than a conspiracy to commit a crime. Why stop this crime before it went any further? The only possible answer is that Fitzgerald did not want to investigate certain individuals. Someone was getting in too deep.

So who is Fitzgerald protecting? It certainly can’t be Blagojevich. He is in too deep to save. It isn’t Blagojevich’s chief of staff, he just isn’t important enough. The only reasonable assumption is that Fitzgerald is protecting either someone who would have paid for access (or “naming rights”) to the seat, or an aide to that someone. It is likely that someone was about to step over the line and Fitzgerald knew he had to stop it or face prosecuting a big name Democrat, one obviously much more important than Blagojevich.

If you doubt the scenario, ask yourself this. What prosecutor would stop a drug deal before the actual sale went down? What prosecutor would pass on the opportunity to gain more evidence, both against their primary target and other possible wrong doers? What prosecutor would risk their entire case by arresting a suspect before the actual crime was completed?

It is great that Patrick Fitzgerald wanted to charge Rod Blagojevich for these unthinkable crimes against democracy. But what is clearer is that it takes two, or more, to commit the crimes for which Blagojevich is charged. There is a man, or men, on the other side. Fitzgerald’s actions shielded those men from prosecution. We can only assume he knew what he was doing.

Comments

[Enquiring minds]

You hit the nail on the head. They had him dead to rights and stopped short of letting the crime occur. That begs for a messy trial and a lessor charge for sure. Who takes down a Governor in a major City with a newsworthy twist, it is Obama's old seat, without getting the biggest bang for the buck? He could have always gone back to where they are today if money hadn't changed hands or the actual pay off fell through. Why not go for the gusto?

You have this one dead to rights.

[looseheadprop]

No, it's not protecting someone. It's because the ChiTrib published a story saying that Blago was being taped.

Soon after that Bago told his aide to "undo" what he had done. Blago was going to try to "disassociate himslef fromthe conspiracy" making the case MUCH harder to prove.

Fitzgerald had to pull the trigger in order to save his case.

Really, you might want to look at the timeline before you go off imagining conspiracies to "protect some unknown person" who exists only in your fevered imagination.

Also you might want to check with someone who knows how to prosecute criminal conspiracy cases. This is really very plain vanilla, not the exotic thing you are trying to make it out to be.

[Enquiring minds]

Thanks for clearing that up Jesse.

[LORD REV DYJUAN D BARNES YAHWEH]

WHY DIDNT FITZGERALD PROSECUTE THE ENTIRE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES AND WHY HASNT HE WENT AFTER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR TRYING TO COVER IT ALL UP WHICH IS A CONSPIRACY ???????????????