Libby indictment
The celebrations of the"Bush lied, people died" crowd must be somewhat tempered tonight.
No indictment on the "national security" issue of outing Plame.
No indictment for Karl Rove.
On the other hand, Republicans are hard-pressed to argue that perjury is not serious (not since Bill Clinton's House-not-Senate impeachment).
But ironies abound. We know what we know about this "leak" case from "lawyers close to the investigation" who have been leaking information to the press.
So far no official information is forthcoming from this two year-old investigation about who told who that Plame was a covert CIA agent. And since no one has been charged with the crime of leaking that information, it is still a very untidy affair. Questions. No answers.
I'd like an answer to these questions: What precisely did the President lie about to get us into a war in Iraq? What did he say? Why was it false? And why did that result in our going to war?
Anyone?
No indictment on the "national security" issue of outing Plame.
No indictment for Karl Rove.
On the other hand, Republicans are hard-pressed to argue that perjury is not serious (not since Bill Clinton's House-not-Senate impeachment).
But ironies abound. We know what we know about this "leak" case from "lawyers close to the investigation" who have been leaking information to the press.
So far no official information is forthcoming from this two year-old investigation about who told who that Plame was a covert CIA agent. And since no one has been charged with the crime of leaking that information, it is still a very untidy affair. Questions. No answers.
I'd like an answer to these questions: What precisely did the President lie about to get us into a war in Iraq? What did he say? Why was it false? And why did that result in our going to war?
Anyone?
posted by Barney at 7:28 PM
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