by glubglubglub » Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:46 pm
threatening fitz is probably a bad idea...and that it's made it down to us is probably a good sign, all things considered -- the dastardly thing to do is off him silently, but by making a threat the threatmaker sets him/herself up to a whole 'nother can of legal worms, plus pisses fitz off. And, of course, now that the rumblings of a threat are on the public record, well, it's that much more difficult to do something truly nasty...which is why good fighters (what bushco ain't, really) don't telegraph punches.<br><br>That said, my suspicion has been that because this is a cia-neocon squabble, basically, the company's probably filled Fitz in on all kinds of deep background, so he knows what's out there to investigate. There's a difference between what you know and what's provable in court, and there's a difference between what's true and what you could discover just by interrogating your suspects...so my guess is he's been given help finding questions worth asking.<br><br>Also, I think Powell is pissed enough to throw some bones fitz's way: among other things, he'll now never be the first black president (despite all his public disavowals that he'd be interesting), and his international reputation is in tatters. The sort of gentrified retirement-job that diplomats usually slide into is sorta out of his reach, too, b/c being able to successfully lobby foreign powers is much more useful than being able to successfully lobby domestic ones. <p></p><i></i>
