[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The prosecutor should have immediately found out that, under the circumstances, it wasn't illegal to reveal that Plame-Wilson was CIA. And, having done so, closed up shop.

He did not do so, because that's not what special prosecutors do. The law did not require a special prosecutor, but Ashcroft and his subordinate - and Bush himself - wanted to be "goody two shoes," so Bush let them recuse themselves. This is the thanks the administration gets.

It's all Bush's fault. No sarcasm intended.

[cake_crumb]

Bush is not Ashcroft's subordinate. It's the other way around. Bush allowed the special prosecutor because he promised the American people, publically, that his administration would find the leak and the Democrats were turning the whole micro-mess into one of their cardboard campaign platforms.