Time notes that Fitzgerald has not revealed everything he knows

Time notes that Fitzgerald has not revealed everything he knows, and therefore there could be more to

this than we can see. Nevertheless, as St. Clair/Cockburn note, Libby could simply have trotted out the

reliable ol’ “I have no clear recollection of that, sir”, so beloved of crafty politicos under

investigation. St. Clair/Cockburn conclude;

The people in charge of the nation’s destinies these last five years are very, very stupid. Only

really stupid people could have thought that outing Valerie Plame as an undercover NIKE SHOX employee

was a good way of undercutting her husband, Joe Wilson. Cheney is stupid. Rove is stupid. MBT is

stupid. Libby, about whom we now have a heap of useful material, is very, very stupid.

Don’t sugarcoat it like that guys. Give it to us straight. The LRC bloggers, particularly William L.

Anderson, take a mostly negative view, comparing the investigation and indictment to the Salem-like

Martha Stewart investigation. I’m with them. Gary North agrees, claiming Scooter is “ruined”, but on

that point, I diverge. Assuming Scooter is convicted and goes to the land of slamming doors for a

couple of years, when he gets out, he’ll get his own talk show. Perhaps a guest spot on Crossfire, or

a seat on the McLaughlin Group. The real criminals, the ones in charge of the “justice” system, are

never prosecuted, and as St. Clair/Cockburn say, Scooter will probably get a big, fat pardon anyway.

Also, Mark Kleiman is prescient here on why the Martha Stewart Comparison (“Look at Martha Stewart,

for instance, where they couldn’t find a crime and they indict on something that she said about

something that wasn’t a crime.” – Kay Bailey Hutchison, “Lying to a grand jury is serious, if true.

The rest is Martha Stewart stuff.”…InstaGlenn“)is baloney.