Fitzgerald's Boss Replaced by Skull and Bones Initiate

by **GDN01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:36 am

In the long thread about Bush and Cheney being indicted, GreenCrow posted this news that I think deserves it's own post. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Newsweek_Leak_prosecutors_boss_likely_to_be_replaced_with_Bush_classmate_Scull_an_0806.html">Raw Story is reporting</a> that Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA agent Plame, will have a new boss - a Skull and Bones initiate.  Newsweek's Michael Isikoff will splash a story in tomorrow's Newsweek which reveals that the boss of CIA leak probe prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is likely to be replaced by a former Bush classmate at Yale. What's more, Newsweek has found that the new boss is a fellow initiate of the Yale secret society, Skull and Bones. Details will appear on the magazine's website early Sunday and on newsstands Monday. Among other Skull and Bones initiates are William Taft, the 27th President of the United States; Henry Luce, the founder of Time Magazine; and Senator John Kerry (D-MA). If this is true, it reinforces my belief that Fitzgerald is on to something big, something that the Bush Admin, wants stopped and silenced. Is this the beginning of another Saturday Night Massacre?

by **greencrow0** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:53 am

Thanks for posting this as new info. Something's got to give fairly soon in this stand off between the prosecutor the WH and the media whores. <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06263331.htm">www.alertnet.org/thenews/...263331.htm</a> here's another breaking news feature. My take is that they're now in the 'cut and run' mode. Old Joe Vialls must be laffing and spinning in his grave! Good on you Joe!

by **greencrow0** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:06 am

<a href="http://www.bartcop.com/">www.bartcop.com/</a> Quotes "Here's a thought. What if we brought home 22 soldiers and let them clear brush on the "Lazy W Ranch"? That's how many soldiers we could pay for with Bush's daily salary. At the same time, we could send George over to see how his war is going and give him an opportunity to see what REAL hard work is like. If he gets hurt, he'll be treated at the finest underfunded VA hospitals in the world. And if, God forbid, he were killed, Laura can collect that generous $100,000 "death gratuity" her husband supported." --David Allen, Attribution Comments?

by **GDN01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:12 am

This really concerns me. The Skull and Bones people look out for each other, first and foremost. Nixon's firing of the prosecutor in his investigation was his undoing. It would have happened eventually, but his desperate move on that weekend was a wake-up call to Congress. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre">Here's the wikipedia</a> write up on what is called the Saturday Night Massacre. I think Bush and Co. know they can't go that route again. But if they get someone above Fitzgerald who can undo his work, and dismiss the jury before there are indictments, it could conceivably put an end to the whole investigation. If others with more legal knowledge could address this, I would appreciate your input!

by **dbeach** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:13 am

Michael Isikoff is a CIA asset as are many in MM presscorps IMHO USN intell and USAF intell sit on the big secrets about the underground bases out west and the aliens if they exist whih mant think they do My question is WHAT IS THE BIG SECRET ? that the elites smirk about ect.. too many coincidences..too many cover-ups Thye can put in teddy boy olson and james baker to investiagte busheviks and most of ya ares till gonna be here trying to crash their party..AMEN to all who refuse to give up the fight.. My son will be 7 on 8/8 and he ain't growing up in some death camp cuz the busheviks think its a good idea to kill the dissidents thye committed the TREASON and I..WE gotta be clever enough to sift through the lies and win the prize..which of course is the TRUTH. My boy reminds me.. when he prays : "Dera God you are my best friend.. some day we gonna get the devil"

by **GDN01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:53 am

I've been poking around with google and came up with this info. <a href="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005022.php">Steve Soto on Left Coaster</a> wrote about the importance of Fitzgerald's boss resigning on Friday, July 29th. Deputy Attorney General James Comey has announced that he is leaving the Bush Administration. Why is that a big deal? Because Comey is the man who installed Patrick Fitzgerald as the special counsel investigating the Valerie Plame outing, and has acted as a buffer between Fitzgerald and the political hacks at the top of the Department of Justice and the White House. Given the recusals and conflicts of interest that Alberto Gonzales and his top deputies have in doing anything on the Plame case or in going after Fitzgerald if they wanted to, Comey’s departure, the speed with which he will be replaced, and by whom becomes very important. He goes on to name Timothy Flannigan as the most likely replacer, but explains that Flannigan will have to recuse himself, as others in the WH have, leaving the job of supervising Fitzgerald to Robert McCallum.  Because one of the remaining senior Justice Department officials who may not have to recuse himself and could still fire Fitzgerald is none other that close Bush friend and fellow Yalie Robert McCallum, who isn’t exactly clean on the Plame case himself. You remember good ole’ Robert McCallum, don’t you? It's important to remember that Fitzgerald's appointment as a U. S. attorney in Chicago comes up for reappointment this fall, and that decision rests with, guess who, George W. Bush. And there is already pressure presumably within the GOP to dump Fitzgerald, for obvious reasons. But it isn't clear if a non-reappointment of Fitzgerald by Bush to his Justice position would also end his work as the special counsel on the Plame case, notwithstanding the political fallout that would cascade upon Bush by dumping Fitzgerald while he was in the middle of investigating the White House. And that is why the chain of command above Fitzgerald becomes important. (See linked post for links to McCallum's involvement in the Plame Case.) And sure enough, <a href="http://skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skullandbones.htm">McCallum is a Skull and Bone's man.</a> In another post on Left Coaster, Soto <a href="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004595.php#004595">provides this info on McCallum</a>: First, he is a Yale classmate of one George W. Bush. (As as commenter Lysias noted, a Skull and Bones classmate of Bush, to boot.) Second, he is the member of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s senior staff who Ted Olson and the White House specifically asked to defend the Administration in the Cheney Energy Task Force/Enron legal proceedings. Third, he was in charge of the early stages of the Valerie Plame investigation before even Ashcroft concluded that an outside counsel was needed. He was also the lead attorney in defending the government’s right to prevent news organizations from finding out about terror suspects detained by the US. And lastly, McCallum used to be R. J. Reynolds' attorney at Atlanta's Alston and Bird law firm, which calls into question why the Ashcroft and Gonzales Justice Departments thought a man who worked for the industry should even be heading up this litigation in the first place. In other words, McCallum is on good personal terms with both Bush and Cheney, and is a true believe in the imperial presidency. As for what he did to tank the settlement amount in this racketeering case, which has now caused the judge involved (who also has history with McCallum) to question McCallum’s motives, the Washington Post is reporting this morning that McCallum directed his own witnesses to lower their estimates of what would be necessary for a good settlement against Big Tobacco, thereby softening the sanctions, against the wishes of his own prosecutors on the case. <a href="http://us.altnews.com.au/drop/node/view/1352">This site, naming S&B members, has this description</a> of McCallum's activities: Robert McCallum Robert D. McCallum, Jr., appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Associate Attorney General, was sworn in to that position on July 1, 2003. Prior to that, he had served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division since September, 2001. The Civil Division, with over 700 attorneys, is the largest Legal Division in the Department. As Assistant Attorney General, Mr. McCallum oversaw litigation involving, for example, the defense of challenges to Presidential actions and acts of Congress; national security issues; immigration; benefit programs; commercial issues including health care fraud, banking, insurance, patents, debt collection; and the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. Before joining the Civil Division, Mr. McCallum was a partner at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. McCallum received his undergraduate degree as well as his law degree from Yale University. He also attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1971 the defense of challenges to Presidential actions and acts of Congress - an important skill for someone appointed to supervise Fitgerald, don't you think?

by **dbeach** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:23 am

Chicago has always been notoriuos ..'toddlin town" Fitzie gotta be scared..now a new boss..another ultimate insider...maybe Fitzie will ease out BUT he has 3 lil fish in the net..and if enough folks in Law enforcement think bush is getting too big for his britches..then it may get real interesting..BUT bribes are the elite way..they could not bribe Fitzie and Tom H. said that over a month ago ..so instead they bring in a top gun.. Is Mccollum Irish? small issue but the Irish don't trust the brits and bushco are more british Irish luv a good fight.. maybe Im dreaming but to see the Irish deal with one of ther own who betrays em...and mc collum sure is being set up to be the betrayer.. Don't he know that the buseheviks are getting his blood money in a safe in Cayman islands and he will NEVER live to see a penny of it?? Sherman S.: "Judge Lefkow and her husband had a bad conflict of interest. however, which apparently interfered with any aid she might be in unknotting grand jury problems behind closed doors. The Judge and her husband had somehow fallen in with the Russian mafiya. Near to the Judge's residence is the Russian Martial Arts Center which somehow boasts on their website and elsewhere that they train U.S. and Russian personnel to be available to the Russian bloody tricks secret political police and commandoes, namely the Spitznaz. Taught for such service is how to subdue enemies with mind-control or to kill enemies with your hands, without using guns. In February, 2005, Judge Lefkow's mother and husband were found in the Judge's residence brutally murdered. As is their rotten habit, the FBI blamed it all on a "lone assassin", a sometime electrician, a Polish immigrant. The FBI conveniently disregarded the closed circuit video operating in the alley behind various other houses, showing the faces of known Russian mafiya killers, pals of the Chicago FBI and some U.S. Marshals, breaking into the rear of the judge's residence."

by **rain** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:55 am

there at least severl types of 'Irish', but Mc or Mac, is more typically Scot, which just to confuse things, used to be Irish, ostensibly derived from 'Scotia', the mother of the 'sons of Mil'. similarly, 'Fitz' (which is touted as denoting 'son of the king' <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> ), is often seen as 'more' Irish, but if you check the history, particulary around Elinore's or Henry 11's time, you'll find an awful lot of Fitz's in London.

by **DrDebugDU** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:10 am

Interesting story. It sounds like they want to gain closer control of Fitzgerald. > the defense of challenges to Presidential actions and acts of Congress - an important skill for someone appointed to supervise Fitgerald, don't you think? I love the entry on Political Friendster: <blockquote>Quote:<hr> A judge in court once described McCallum's ethical behavior as "repugnant" and "a mockery of all that the Department of Justice stands for." <a href="http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=91&id2=76">www.politicalfriendster.c...amp;id2=76</a> <hr></blockquote> I guess it says it all. Another rogue in robes...

by **LibertyorDeath** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:22 am

I don't think Patrick J. 'Bulldog' Fitzgerald gets intimidated easily. Not by a bush class mate ( was Mccollum a cheerleader also) If Fitz is on the up and up then he's already put the boot in or he's about to. This is a deperate act by bushco I'm sure Fitz saw this coming like a Neon sign. "Bulldog" once they lock their Jaw that's it. <img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/050725_Issue/050719_RoveFitzgerald_vl.widec.jpg" style="border:0;"/> The Prosecutor Never Rests Whether Probing a Leak or Trying Terrorists, Patrick Fitzgerald Is Relentless By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 2, 2005; Page C01 CHICAGO Fitzgerald, 44, is the special prosecutor investigating the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. The gifted son of an Irish doorman makes no bones about challenging the establishment. His office is also prosecuting former Illinois governor George Ryan and loyal associates of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on influence-peddling and corruption charges. He sees his task as getting to the bottom of things in ways as creative as the law allows. The law doesn't say you can't question a sitting president about his contacts or an investigative reporter about confidential sources. So Fitzgerald has done both, including quizzing Bush for more than an hour in the White House last June. His assiduous demands for answers from journalists alarms critics who believe he has created the greatest confrontation between the government and the press in a generation. "His thoroughness, his relentlessness, his work ethic are legendary," says terrorism expert Daniel Benjamin, a former member of the National Security Council. Seeing Fitzgerald in action, says Los Angeles lawyer Anthony Bouza, a college classmate, is "like watching a sophisticated machine." Colleagues speak in head-shaking tones of Fitzgerald's skills in taking a case to trial. A Phi Beta Kappa math and economics student at Amherst before earning a Harvard law degree in 1985, he has a gift for solving puzzles and simplifying complexity for a jury. He's no slouch at stagecraft, either. At the trial of a Mafia hit man, the defense argued that a ski mask -- part of what Fitzgerald called a "hit kit" that included surgical gloves, a gun and hollow-point bullets -- was really just a hat. (The defense also said the surgical gloves were for putting ointment on the defendant's ailing dog.) During closing arguments, Fitzgerald startled the jury by rolling up one leg on his lawyerly dark suit. "These are just shorts, ladies and gentlemen," he said, according to one account. "These are just shorts." Into the Scrum People who know Fitzgerald describe him as anything but a stuffed shirt. During a key moment in one New York trial, he slipped a note to his co-counsel, who interrupted questioning to read it to himself. It said, "Is there beer in the fridge?" Fitzgerald's parents, born on opposite sides of Ireland's County Clare, met in the United States. They raised their son in Flatbush and guided him to a scholarship at a Jesuit high school. He worked as a school janitor in Brooklyn to make money for college and spent summers opening doors at an upscale co-op building on East 72nd Street in Manhattan. (His father worked at a building on East 75th, just off Madison Avenue.) It is part of Fitzgerald lore that he bit his tongue when rich apartment dwellers talked down to him as "just the doorman." After law school, he spent three years in private practice before fleeing to the prosecution side. In the New York days, his married friends chided him about his workaholic, overachieving, hopelessly bachelor life. One time, visiting the small Brooklyn studio where Fitzgerald lived, a lawman noticed papers piled on the gas stove. Don't worry about the fire hazard, Fitzgerald told him -- "I've never turned it on." "The advantage he had over me," Comey says, "was he was much smarter and he had no life. He could sit there and never go home. Fitz would go in there and just sit and read through files. It would almost be as if he was photographing them." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1.htmlThe Prosecutor Never Rests (washingtonpost.com) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1.html </a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=libertyordeath@rigorousintuition>LibertyorDeath</A> at: 8/7/05 2:06 am

by **GDN01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:18 am

I said this in the other thread, but want to add it here... I can't imagine being Fitzgerald right now, having the weight of the world on his shoulders. He has to know that if indictments are handed down for Bush and Cheney, it will throw this country into a crisis. Even if it stops with Rove, there will be a lot of political fallout. But he has to have gained knowledge of corruption and deception that would blow people's minds, if the truth ever comes out. I can't imagine how he sleeps at night with this responsibility. I also hope Fitzgerald is smart enough to not fly, or go to a rooftop, or sleep with his back to a door. I wonder what kind of security protection he has. I know if I were him, I'd have hired a whole slew of bodyguards long ago!

by **OnoI812** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:30 am

The C&D crew has indicated a whole crew of the burlyest heavily armed sgt rock type , guard Fitzgerald and all the GJs on a 24/7 basis at this point.

by **LibertyorDeath** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:00 am

Not to be flippant but the country is already in a crisis and that may be the way he views it also. He sounds like he lives breathes and eats this stuff Sure the ramifications are large but if you asked him I bet you he would say "I'm just doing my job" Thanks Ono1812 for the info. good to know he has some protection.

by **GDN01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:28 am

You're right LoD, we are in a crisis. Even though most people don't seem to notice. Either way this investigation goes, there are huge implications for the future of this country. I just hope the truth comes out, and that it happens soon.

by **rain** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:52 am

LoD thanx for posting that pic. has to be my fave for the moment. and for those who are a bit concerned, if you look closely you can see he's wired. I guess they're doing the best they can. Fitzgerald not packing his bags Published August 4, 2005 U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, his future in Chicago uncertain as his four-year term nears its end, said Wednesday he plans to keep at work "until someone tells me they'd like someone else to do the job." "You're very lucky to get the job, you do your job, and if someone tells you it no longer serves the pleasure of the president, then you pack your bags and move on," Fitzgerald said in answer to reporters' questions at a news conference. Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune

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