James Comey has added former Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to his legal team.

 Courtesy of TPM: 

Fired FBI Director James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as one of his personal attorneys, bringing in a heavy-hitting former prosecutor, close friend and longtime colleague to help him navigate his dramatic role as a potential witness in the investigation of President Trump’s campaign and potential obstruction of justice. 

Two Capitol Hill sources independently told TPM that Fitzgerald was serving as a lawyer for Comey. After publication, Fitzgerald confirmed that he “has been part of Mr. Comey’s legal team since May 2017.”

Damn! James Comey has chosen one of the best prosecutors in the country to assist him.

Comey and Fitzgerald go way back, and in fact Comey is the one who chose Fitzgerald to serve as a Special Counsel during the Bush Administration.

The target of that investigation was Scooter Libby, who Fitzgerald saw convicted, and who Trump just recently pardoned.

I have to imagine that Fitzgerald is not feeling terribly generous toward the man who erased all of his hard work, and Trump has NOBODY on his team who can go toe to toe with this guy.

22 million missing Bush administration e-mails found!

White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press.

The discovery was announced Monday by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which filed lawsuits against the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in 2007 for the e-mails.

The two groups had initially filed a Freedom of Information Act request for e-mails in the wake of a scandal involving the Justice Department, which had fired U.S. attorneys around the country in an apparent political bid to rid the department of prosecutors who didn’t adhere to the White House’s conservative agenda. The missing emails were also potentially crucial to the investigation into the Valerie Plame-CIA leak scandal.

The groups eventually filed lawsuits after the EOP revealed that it had lost about 5 million e-mails from its servers between January 2003 and July 2005 because the e-mails had not been archived properly per the Presidential Records Act. Among other things, CREW sought records about the EOP’s e-mail management system, about retained and missing e-mails and about any audit reports that might have revealed potential problems with the e-mail system.


The newly discovered e-mails were apparently mislabeled and were recently uncovered by contractors hired by the White House. The e-mails will eventually be made available to the public after they are archived through the National Archives and Records Administration.

These e-mails suddenly disappeared when Patrick Fitzgerald was attempting to discover what Dick Cheney knew about the Valerie Plame affair. The excuse was ridiculous ("the process by which e-mail was being collected and retained was primitive and the risk that data would be lost was high."), and the cover up obvious to anybody who was really paying attention. By this time the Bush administrations lies and obfuscations were becoming legendary, but still they were able to keep Fitzgerald from obtaining e-mails that may have resulted in Dick Cheney facing criminal charges.

Well now we have them, and I for one really want to know what they say. And if what they reveal will result in anybody in the Bush administration finally facing justice.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington want Patrick Fitzgerald to re-open his investigation in light of the missing e-mails.

Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said today, "It looks like Karl Rove may well have destroyed evidence that implicated him in the White House's orchestrated efforts to leak Valerie Plame Wilson's covert identity to the press in retaliation against her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson." Sloan continued, "Special Counsel Fitzgerald should immediately reopen his investigation into whether Rove took part in the leak as well as whether he obstructed justice in the ensuing leak investigation."

Now as one of those who was somewhat less then satisfied at the outcome of Fitzgerald's last case, the one that resulted in the conviction of Scooter Libby, I would truly love to see him go after this administration again. As a matter of fact I would not be at all surprised if Fitzgerald got the information about these e-mails out to CREW himself with the intention of re-starting his investigation.

The man is described as "scary smart" for a reason.