Fred Thompson: You Can’t Kid a Kidder.
“He had to realize early on that the matter he was appointed to investigate was not a crime,” said Thompson, who is a board member of a group raising legal funds for Libby. “He should have put his little papers in his briefcase and gone back to Chicago.”
(emphasis mine).
Did you know how hard it is to type while laughing hysterically? I’m finding out right now.
“He had to realize early on that the matter he was appointed to investigate was not a crime.” Fred would certainly know something about that, considering the former Republican Senator from Tennesee seems to have forgotten his role as Chairman in the Senate’s Whitewater hearings, which cost taxpayers $50 million dollars, resulted in zero convictions against the Clintons, and boiled down at the end of the day not to questions about real estate transactions, but to whether President Clinton had received a blow job from Monica Lewinsky, a consenting adult that was not his wife (much like Republicans like Newt Gingrich, Dan Burton, George Bush Senior, Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston, Bon Packwood, and a host of others). Talk about your “petty political crimes”: Fred was only too glad to climb to the top of the shitpile as Chairman of the whole three-ring circus. Funny how a prosecutor with “no brake and no check and no balance” wasn’t a problem then when it was the Republicans holding hearings.
The Fitzgerald Investigation of Lewis Libby has to do with obstruction of justice as Libby may have lied to the Feds about his role in the leak of Valerie Plame’s name, who everyone except the most assheaded right-wing dingalings concedes was under deep cover. Compare to “Did the President get his cock sucked.”
I’m really glad Thompson’s gone into acting. It’s very easy for professional liars to get into character and, with the deepest sincerity, pretend to be something they are not. Thompson’s doing it right here: he’s pretending to offer his unbiased opinion on the case, when really he’s an unbridled partisna, and an ally of the defendant.
Might even make a good episode for “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
