Another excellent piece by Hitchens.
What I haven't read and/or heard yet is Fitzgerald being fired.
Fitzgerald has wasted years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars enriching himself and his subordinates on an "investigation" that any beat cop in America could have solved in a day.
Valerie Plame, at the time, was nothing more than a CIA desk jockey.
A CIA employee NOT covered by anonymity protection.
"Fitzgerald has wasted years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars"
Fitzgerald had to know that Plame was not covert, that reporters knew who Plame was, and that Armitage had blabbed to Novak. Fitzgerald dragged Rove before the Grand Jury five times, trying to catch Rove in a perjury trap. Absolutely disgraceful. Fitzgerald obviously saw it as his job to nail something on the White House, and that's what he tried to do. In light of this, I don't see why he continues to have access to a Washington Grand Jury.
From what I see, there is a dramatic shortage of internal oversight and punitive measures for unethical conduct within the legal and judiciary professions.