Did anyone else notice this? Even the
NYTimes is getting in on the 'dis Fitzgerald' game (p.2 first paragraph of the article).
The existence of Mr. Woodward's mysterious source came as a surprise to lawyers in the case, because it hinted that Mr. Fitzgerald had failed to learn a significant fact after two years of investigation, despite his reputation as a ferocious investigator who spent weeks digging out the smallest details before seeking indictments.
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Apparently Times reporters Purdhum, Johnston, and Jehl--and their editors--missed that part of Fitzgerald's press conference where he let us know that he "had failed to learn a significant fact after two years of investigation" because the biggest problem he was having in the course of the investigation was people lying and obstructing the investigation (most notably Scooter Libby: thus the lying and obstruction charges against
him, and the refusal to close the rest of the investigation.)
I suppose, after the last 4 years of sterling propagandizing for this administration, that it's NOT that much of a surprise that the Times is trying to run interference for for these people, but the past few weeks of their reporting and editorializing had suggested that they were moving back toward (not 'TO') the middle.....