[Overpaid Slacker]

Lendaddy -

Why wait for the facts to come out? It's much more fun to run on speculation than dry, boring fact.

I don't have an issue with Libby being tried, and if guilty of a crime (which is the key in the rest of Fitzgerald's investigation that seems to get lost by the Blame Bush First, Last and Always Geniuses) then convicted and severely sentenced.

But to conflate Libby's ex post facto doings with the initial release of information is typical of the fact-dodge approach that the Libs absolutely cannot do without. With all the hullabaloo and absolute moral certainty that there was a crime committed here necessitating Fitzgerald and the investigation, the fact that Libby appears to have committed his own crimes, independent of the initial disclosure is being hailed by the shallow thinkers of vindication for the investigation into the initial disclosure. Not exactly a brilliant tactic, but one that evidently suckers people who pay half attention and need there to be something to hang on Bush.

Evidently, Fitz knows who the "leakers" were, but he goes way beyond most of the BBFLA and knows the law as well. Thus far, it is his determination that concerning the initial leak, the law hadn't been broken. Will that stop the Geniuses from stating that it had been broken as a foregone conclusion? If history is any guide, absolutely not.

JP


EDIT -- Rodeo, if Clinton was "denied" a trial somehow, it was by his own party, who voted lock-step along party lines not to allow him one in impeachment proceedings.