attacking Fitzgerald

Assault on Fitzgerald Intensifies
The New York Daily News reports that administration “defenders have launched a not-so-subtle campaign against the prosecutor handling the case.” They’ve got this quote about special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from a “White House ally”:

He’s a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he’s been tapped by God to do very important things

James Comey, the Bush administration official who announced Fitzgerald’s appointment, had a different take on December 30, 2003:

I chose Mr. Fitzgerald, my friend and former colleague, based on his sterling reputation for integrity and impartiality. He is an absolutely apolitical career prosecutor.

The mud is being thrown but it’s going to be hard to make it stick.

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Carlson: White House Should Have Been Smearing Fitzgerald Months Ago
Tonight on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson shared his true disappointment with the White House response to the CIA leak scandal.

It’s not the dishonesty, or the months of stonewalling. It’s that the Bush administration didn’t start smearing the special prosecutor early enough:

I think politically [the Bush administration] did very much the wrong thing by saying nice things about Patrick Fitzgerald some months ago — “he’s a man of integrity,” “he’s a good guy,” “we have complete confidence he’s going do the right thing,” etc., etc. — making it now almost impossible for the White House, even on background, to attack the guy.

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(Both from Think Progress)
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So now the only way to do what the repugs do best - slime someone for political reasons - is to contradict what they have said about this man previously!
Of course, consistency is not a repug trait!