Friday, October 28, 2005

Much ado about....?

From here:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter' Libby Jr. was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case.

Read the indictment
Go to special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's web site
See a timeline of events surrounding the invesitgation

Karl Rove, President Bush's closest adviser, escaped indictment Friday but remained under investigation, his legal status a looming political problem for the White House. The indictments stem from a two-year investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald into whether Rove, Libby or any other administration officials knowingly revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame or lied about their involvement to investigators.

The five-count indictment accuses Libby of lying about how and when he learned about CIA official Valerie Plane's identity in 2003 and then told reporters about it. The information was classified.

Interestingly, nowhere in the above article do I find anything in which either Rove or Libby are charged with actually "leaking" any untoward information regarding Lame Plame, which is the subject of the investigation.

Does anyone else see anything interesting about that? Could this whole thing have been just a "smoke-and-mirror" witch hunt from the get-go? Five will get you 10 that's the case. But would you have expected anything else from a party hell-bent on getting accomplished what, by virtue of their paucity of ideas, they couldn't get at the ballot box?
Anyone remember this cover from Vanity Fair?. So much for Plame not wanting to "out herself." Come to think of it, there are other things that Ms. Plame and Mr. Wilson CAN do to themselves. Use your imagination.