One of my favorite conservatives, Fred Dalton Thompson lambasted Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of Scooter Libby. Here's his first rip on Fitzgerald:

"There was no indication that a law had been violated," said Thompson. "That's borne out by the fact that nobody's been charged with outing her. The Justice Department knew that early on. The CIA should have known that early on. Special Counsel Fitzgerald had to have known that at the very beginning. There was no law that had been violated at the time the investigation had been started," he added.

In other words, Fitzgerald shouldn't have even convened a grand jury. Fitzgerald was hired to see if the disclosing of Valerie Plame's name triggered a violation of the IIPA. They knew before the grand jury was convened that Richard Armitage was the leaker and that Plame wasn't covered by the IIPA. Fitzgerald should've closed the investigation at that point and explained why. He didn't and now he's about to have his case collapse.

Here's another dig that Sen. Thompson got in on Fitzgerald:

"You can get someone caught up on a faulty memory and make this kind of accusation in almost any investigation. Here, everybody connected with the case has a faulty memory. We've seen an array of prosecution witnesses, one after another, who cannot remember entire conversations they had with people."

As I said here and here, the prosecution's witnesses practically made the defense's case for them. I think that's why the defense has decided to not have Dick Cheney or Scooter Libby testify. Here's Sen. Thompson's last dig of the article:

"He turned out to be a fella who can see miles and miles in a straight line, but had no peripheral vision at all and didn't realize apparently that he was caught up in a bureaucratic political dogfight."

That sounds like the best description I've heard yet of Patrick Fitzgerald.

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