Whose life is in danger right now?

Who shouldn't get on an airplane right now?

A. Adam Kidan

B. Patrick Fitzgerald

C. Official A in the Plame Outing Probe

D. Other

and Cheney has to know that.

No wonder poor pig-boy is wasting away... he can't eat for the fear.

... as shown by the fate of others who were previously in this position, but who are no longer with us.

Here're just a few examples for you:

1. A state district judge in a southern state was taking bribes in return for lenient treatment in the sentencing of drug dealers. His operation would aggressively seek out just the right drug dealers, then "sell" the possibility of a lenient sentence to them, and would proceed to shake them down. The operation included bail bondsmen, a couple defenselawyers, a prosecutor, and the judge.

The operation began to be revealed, and two lawyers and a bail bondsman were convicted of taking part. Then the judge was indicted by the feds.

The people began to watch to see how the judge, clearly the kingpin of the operation, would get out of this serious trouble. Finally, it became apparent that he was going to try to buy leniency in return for a fairly light sentence in federal criminal court. (Irony? Yes.)

Oftentimes, it is the big boys in such a scheme who pick off the smaller guys to keep them from snitching. But in this case, it just happened that some of the smaller guys, also facing serious time, were more ruthless than was the judge himself when it came to killing people. So this time, it was the big guy who got it.

The judge was found in the crawl space under his house. He had "committed suicide" by shooting himself. Oddly, the gun was nowhere around.

Of course, it's possible that he did commit suicide and then after becoming dead, he walked outa there and hid the gun where no one would ever find it--because no one has ever found it.


2. The mayor of a southern city had the feds closing in on him and his various business partners over a scandal involving contracts awarded for bribes and other embezzling of city taxpayers' money.

A couple of the mayor's larger business partners were convicted. But the feds still had their sights trained on the mayor himself.

Among the many "little guys" involved in this scheme, there was one guy (we'll call him Joe) who had just been convicted of a federal crime related to the scheme. He knew some stuff about the mayor's operation. He was out on bond. He hadn't been sentenced yet, so he had a possibility of turning "state's" (federal government) evidence to get a lighter sentence. He happened to be in a house with a couple of other guys who also worked with the mayor in his little moneymaking schemes.

One of the mayor's guys aimed a shotgun at Joe's head. These 50-something men were "just horsing around". Tragically, the 50-something man holding the gun accidentally pulled the trigger, blowing Joe to kingdom come. This trigger man was NEVER PROSECUTED. See, it was an "accident". Sure--could've happened to anybody.

No need to worry anymore about Joe telling what he knew.

3. And, related to the same mayor, it just so happened that another one of his underlings, who was involved in a different fraudulent moneymaking scheme and who therefore knew a thing or two that the federal prosecutors would've been happy to learn, one day encountered a flat tire while driving on a busy highway. (It was later believed by many that the tire had been deliberately punctured.) He pulled over, got out, and was changing the tire, when a vehicle speeding by "accidentally" crossed into the shoulder of the road, where the potential federal witness was changing his tire. The potential federal witness was hit and knocked to kingdom come. Of course, all of this must've just been a terrible accident.

But the mayor didn't have to worry any more about that guy telling what he knew.