There is no legal standard by which these independent counsel investigations are conducted. This was a witch-hunt from jump street.
Fitzgerald is a moron.. or worse..
That's a big 'if' given the sources.
Plame and Wilson should be charged with treason for 'manipulating information.'" Something the media has already indicted the Admin of doing.
JUST CRAP!!!! Why oh why did Bush EVER allow this to happen...fool me once...
Fitzgerald impressed me as a classic "overachiever", a guy with ordinary skills and intelligence who makes up for his lack of imagination by plugging away.
A cleverer, more confident person would not have made this hollow mountain out of a pathetic molehill.
So Fitzgerald, the FBI and Powell knew within days that Armitage was the leaker.
That Fitzgerald went forward with the investigation is a disgrace and he should be disbarred.
That Powell didn't defend the President of the United States is so disloyal that I'll never defend him again. Ever.
Since Armitage wasn't charged with leaking Plame's name, we can all be gratified that we were correct and she wasn't a covert agent at the time so there was no crime.
And I see the leftists aren't demanding Armitage's head on a platter. So it's okay to "leak" if the leaker is a critic of the president.
And the Democrats aren't demanding that McCain stop all association with Armitage. When they just thought the leaker was Rove, they were demanding the president fire him. What a bunch of hypocrites.
OOPS!!!
How did this investigation help to feed a hungry child?