[STARWISE]

What do you think of this as a potential stategery (at the very end)?

"The Libby trial

Last week Clarice Feldman left a comment on American Thinker that sums up why the Scooter Libby trial is likely to turn out to be such fun.

As I have observed, the Special Prosecutor, constrained by the DoJ regulations on questioning reporters about their sources and by his felt need to do so, conducted a perfectly ridiculous inquiry in which reporters who quite obviously had prior independent knowledge of Valerie Plame’s identity were never asked about that knowledge of the source(s) of it, as Fitzgerald accused Libby of being the person who started the rumors of her employment.

Bob Woodward’s voluntary acknowledgement of independent knowledge well before any conversation by Libby cited in the indictment was further evidence of this fact.

Today Libby’s lawyers filed a motion which (a) will establish the half-baked nature of the investigation and (b) his right to independently question the media about matters which Fitzgerald should have, but failed to inquire, to make the investigation a fair one.

Lurking in the dim recesses of my mind is the suspicion that Fitzgerald knew exactly what he was doing. What better way to put the press on trial."

[Steve_Seattle]

"Lurking in the dim recesses of my mind is the suspicion that Fitzgerald knew exactly what he was doing."

I disagree. His demeanor at the press conference/love-in suggested to me that he was caught up in the idea of making history, and had actually come to believe that this was a serious investigation about a serious matter. In my opinion, he was utterly blind to the overall dynamics of what was really going on, and mostly - if not entirely - bought in to the media version of events. To his credit, he admitted - an admission which the press almost universally ignored - that there was no political pressure from the White House. I'll give him credit for that, but not for much else.