This should be good. The 'Rats and MSM should be careful what they wish for--"discovery" can bite them on their backsides.
How the judge rules on this will be key to the disposition of the case. If Libby gets his discovery, then all he has to do is hang tough and eventually the political pressure by dems and the Old Media will force the prosecutor to drop charges. The stakes for the media and the dems are jut too high to let the case go to trial.
But until the judge rules, the pressure on him NOT to grant discovery will be huge. He knows, if he grants discovery to Libby, he and his wife will not get invited to any of the power DC parties for ten years. If he has kids who want internships or contracts with the government, those doors will close. If his kids are attorneys, their clients will hire someone else. If there is an illegitimate child thirty years ago, it will somehow find its way into the NY Times.
The dems and the Old Media (and the Clinton holdovers in the CIA and State Dept) will play the hardest of hardball on this one because it goes to one of the core pillars of their power.
Let's just hope the judge is a red-state kind of guy who could care about the power parties and that his kids work in a decent place in flyover country and don't do business with the government.
What will NOT happen in this case is a public airing in court of the way the press has handled this case.
"One of the things that drives Republicans crazy is the media's enormous double-standard in how they cover various scandals... Skeptics can go to the Web site of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, popularly known as the House ethics committee. Click on 'historical documents,' and go to a publication called 'Historical Summary of Conduct Cases in the House of Representatives.'... By my count, there have been 70 different members of the House who have been investigated for serious offenses over the last 30 years, including many involving actual criminality and jail time. Of these, only 15 involved Republicans, with the remaining 55 involving Democrats." —Bruce Bartlett
I want to see Andrea Mitchell's name on this list.
"discovery" can bite them on their backsides."
I am ill even thinking about the backsides of Democrats and dinosaur medium reporters, editors and newsreaders.
The thought of one belonging to Diane Sawyer makes me want to scream and run down the hall to beat my head on the butcher block in the kitchen.