[RavenATB]

Isn't a prosecutor's first responsibility that of determining if the initial complaint of a criminal act is legitimate?

A high school student could have discovered that Plame's "undercover" status with the CIA had changed so long ago that the law which was alleged to be violated didn't apply. It seems to me that someone with this man's credentials probably knew that fact at first glance. After that realization, he's done nothing but to enjoy a two-year fishing expedition in his attempt to be able to say "Got ya!".

Those that love their liberty should be outraged that a prosecutor can spend two years dragging a handful of men/women into a court room, without benefit of a lawyer, and repeat the same questions dozens of times...spaced months apart...just waiting for someone's memory to fail. This is especially so when the initial concern of criminal activity was obviously something the prosecutor knew he could never successfully prosecute from "day one."

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Exactly!

At the risk of offending with the example (certainly not my intent, but it's pertinent) this seems a bit like Martha Stuart being prosecuted for proclaiming her innocence to her stockholders - that's stock fraud?

Rather like basing the definition of grand larceny on a set dollar amount, as inflation slowly drops that threshold day after day. The alternative minimum tax - which becomes a lowering ceiling of taxation. We're massively over-litigated.

Bush should start, next week, to be the Alpha Male which Bill Clinton always wanted to be. He should pardon Libby, announce the construction of border fences from Brownsville to San Ysidro, from Vancouver to Bangor - nominate Janice Rogers Brown for the Supreme Court, then publicly condemn: the politics of personal destruction.

CLEARLY.

It worked for Clinton, because it was true then and it's true now.

It's consistent with Bush's management style as Governor. He needs to face up finally to the combativeness of his opponents, and clearly draw a line in the sand about it.

IMHO it will work to everyone's advantage, to point to so obvious a truth.

[mcshot]

"...just waiting for someone's memory to fail..."


And who has the best failing memory. None other than the wench of Klinton, Inc.

mc