Thursday, October 20, 2005

Rush To Judgment

WaPo: If administration officials deliberately blew Valerie Plame's "undercover" status, they should be punished.

"Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald may have evidence that they did; there is a still a great deal that is not publicly known. But so far, in the accounts given by reporters about their conversations with administration officials, no such crime has been described. What has been depicted is an administration effort to refute the allegations of a critic (some of which did in fact prove to be untrue) and to undermine his credibility, including by suggesting that nepotism rather than qualifications led to his selection."

"If such conversations are deemed a crime, journalism
and the public will be the losers."

Power Line: Plame Indictments -- If what I'm hearing is reliable, expect some soon.

Update:
NYT: "Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy" "Among the charges that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering are perjury, obstruction of justice and false statement"

Related:
Conspiracy Theory -- Again
--LynZee