Did Fitz Meet With Bush's Personal Lawyer?

[MelissaB]

RJ Eskow

Did Fitz Meet With Bush's Personal Lawyer?

Patrick Fitzgerald was seen Friday outside the office of Pres. Bush's personal lawyer, Jim Sharp - who is apparently the same Jim Sharp who represented a major Iran/Contra figure. One, two, three ... start your impeachment fantasies.

No Blood for Hubris found this graf in the former "Paper of Record":

Mr. Fitzgerald was spotted Friday morning outside the office of James Sharp, Mr.Bush's personal lawyer. Mr. Bush was interviewed about the case by Mr. Fitzgerald last year. It is not known what discussions, if any, were taking place between the prosecutor and Mr. Sharp. Mr. Sharp did not return a phone call, and Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment.

No Blood also links to Raw Story, which says this about Sharp:

The only other president to hire a private attorney for acts committed while president, Richard Nixon, eventually resigned from office.

Sharp long has cloaked himself in secrecy, even taking the unusual move of paying to have his address and telephone number removed from the major Martindale legal directory. He was an assistant district attorney before he came to Washington and has a history of taking on cases with political implications.

Sharp’s highest profile client was Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, a major figure in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped Lt. Col. Oliver North accumulate untaxed wealth in overseas accounts.

Before our hearts start racing (oops ... too late) let's take a deep breath and remember: this could be absolutely routine. The Special Prosecutor could have a few simple questions. Fitz's dentist could have an office in the same building. Still, the mind reels ...

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/did-fitz-meet-with-bushs_b_9793.html

Goodboy's related thread is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5219583

After reading his thread, I went searching.

[Zen Democrat]

1. Here's the link to the story in the NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/politics/29leak.html?pagewanted=all

The relevant paragraph is down in the story.

[MelissaB]

2. snip

Mr. Fitzgerald was spotted Friday morning outside the office of James Sharp, Mr. Bush's personal lawyer. Mr. Bush was interviewed about the case by Mr. Fitzgerald last year. It is not known what discussions, if any, were taking place between the prosecutor and Mr. Sharp. Mr. Sharp did not return a phone call, and Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment.

[Somawas]

3. Somehow I have the feeling that Fitz and Sharp

were not settling up their bets from last weekend's football games.

[Mnemosyne]

4. "declined to comment". Hm, that sound

odd to you Melissa? Why wouldn't Fitzgerald's office state it as untrue. It creates more speculation with their wording, imo.:hi:

[MelissaB]

5. It seems that we (at DU) aren't the only ones speculating.

This is all fascinating. :popcorn:

[Mnemosyne]

6. May I join you?

:popcorn:

[Zensea]

7. Fitz consistently declines to comment

Doesn't have to mean anything either way.
He went into some detail in the press conference as to why that is.
He'd be breaking the law for one thing.

[Mnemosyne]

8. I understand Fitz's closed-mouth, it just would

seem that his office would want to quell false rumors, if that is the case. How would that be breaking the law?
Peace.
V

[stop the bleeding]

11. Yeah kind of like when the rumor went around about Fitz getting

more office space rented and I believe his office told the press that no they hadn't rented the new office space. Am I wrong on this?

If not then right there we have proof that Fitz's office would quell some untrue rumors.

sitting here speculating and waiting:popcorn:

[Mnemosyne]

Glad I'm not alone

in my thoughts on this, thanks stb!

[AnnInLa]

9. From Newsweek:

((from Quixote1818's Newsweek post on this board:


"In any case, Fitzgerald made another visit early Friday morning—shortly before the grand jury voted to indict Dick Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby—to the office of James Sharp, President George W. Bush's own lawyer in the case, to tell him the president's closest aide would not be charged. Rove remains in some jeopardy, but the consensus view of lawyers close to the case is that he has probably dodged the bullet."


Continued at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9865842/site/newsweek /

((How accommocating is that on the part of Fitz????? Yuck.))

[KittyWampus]

10. "Lawyers Close To The Case" IOW> LUSKIN, and Newsweek is disingenuous

for not just saying "According to ROVE'S lawyer". Because that's all that paragraph is... Disinformation coming from Rove/Luskin.

[stop the bleeding]

13. I call Bullshit on NewsWEAK, because Fitz is taking time out of his

packed schedule on the morning of the long awaited day to drop by the president's personal lawyer and deliver information that a) could have been delivered by another of Fitz's people or b) that kind of information would have been known to come from Rove's camp/lawyer. No that explanation by NewsWEAK is just that WEAK, if Fitz is making the rounds to any one's office at any time of the investigation you better be on notice. Especially if it falls on the last day of deliberations like last Friday. :popcorn:

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. It was probably nothing more then a courtesy call

to let the President know that a member of his staff was just indicted.

Since Fitzgerald is the acting Attorney General in this case and technically the only person over him is the POTUS, it would be appropriate for Fitzgerald to give Bush a head's up about the indictment.