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To: Srexley who wrote (742827)	6/16/2006 9:52:17 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Interesting take on the Plame affair.... Fitzgerald Called. Case Over By Mark Noonan at 02:16 AM This from Real Clear Politics: That's the message that popped up on Karl Rove's Blackberry as he prepared to take off to New Hampshire on Monday afternoon, according to Anna Schneider-Mayerson's interview with Rove lawyer Robert Luskin the New York Observer. Of course, it isn't entirely "case over" - there is still the paranoid ramblings on the left (they seem to be settling on either Rove flipping to get Cheney, or Cheney, et al forcing Fitz to drop the case), but there is also the Libby indictment still outstanding. My view of the Libby indictment is now that it was a mere tool in an attempt to get Libby to turn on Rove, Cheney or anyone else Fitzgerald could get in his prosecutorial sights - Fitzgerald apparantly didn't count on the courage and resolution Libby has shown. A lot of men would have crumbled under indictment and agreed to do anything to get out from underneath it - Libby showed backbone, and there was really nothing for Fitzgerald to do by to repeatedly question Rove in front of the Grand Jury in hopes of tripping him up and then indicting him for perjury. Also left at lose ends for now is just who referred the Plame case to the Department of Justice, and why - given that Plame was absolutely not a covert agent, there was no possibility of a crime in anyone mentioning her in the press. We are left to surmise that the referral was done with a mind towards deflecting attention away from the whole Plame/Wilson pack of lies and deceptions vis a vis Wilson's op-ed in the New York Times. I do think a criminal investigation needs to be launched - but the targets need to be Wilson, Plame and whomever at the Kerry campaign helped cook up Wilson's bogus op-ed (lost in all the shouting is the fact that Wilson became a Kerry advisor a month before the New York Times piece - I don't believe in coincidences, not in politics). The reason we need to really get to the bottom of this - and send people to jail over it - is to ensure that people don't wantonly slander the names of honest men and women for mere political purposes. There is no place for Rove and Libby to go and get their good name back - for all time to come, their names will be smudged, a cloud will hang over them. It doesn't matter that neither did anything dishonest; in keeping with the Big Lie theory, the endless repetition of slanders against them have placed in the public mind the perception that something fishy was going on, and Rove and Libby were at the bottom of it. This is just not right - people shouldn't have to put up with this because a political candidate needs to neutralise an issue which cuts against him in the polls...this whole Wilson thing being just part of that 2004 Democratic effort to denigrate the War on Terrorism and thus allow (in theory) Kerry to skate by the fact that the Democrats had no real plan for the war.