The problem with this case is there never should have been one. Fitzgerald is charged to go out and find out who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the media. He does that and decides to cover for him and protect the leaker’s identity. Knowing he has the culprit and has decided not to prosecute, he goes out to find someone who did NOT leak Plame’s identity to the press, but told the press he only heard the news from reporters and cannot confirm the information. For NOT leaking (or confirming) Libby is indicted.

Not only is this a joke, it should be illegal and Fitzgerald needs to called on the mat for distorting his charge to go after someone incidental to the investigation.

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NED

And, that makes sense. How in the world can the political hacks posing as US attorneys get the assistance they need from the media to destroy this President and his Administration, if their journalistic hatchet-men can’t rely on the veracity of the people they’re trying to destroy?

Does anyone else recall one of the first official maneuvers undertaken by the then-new attorney general, Janet Reno? Give up?

She requested the resignations of in-place US attorneys, replacing many if not most — certainly screening those heading up “hot” federal districts — with new, more friendly faces (read that, “DNC-friendly faces”).

This case is giving me a headache. This is starting to sound like an Al Franken debate.