[jwalsh07]

The Ashcroft Justice Department. Armitage brought his story to investigators after the CIA requested an investigation when the name of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, appeared in Novak's column. So when the department decided weeks later to appoint a special prosecutor, it already knew who had "leaked" Plame's name. Then attorney-general John Ashcroft excused himself, leaving the decision to his deputy, James Comey.

Rather than face a torrent of partisan recriminations for dropping the case, Comey passed the buck to Fitzgerald. There were no profiles in courage at Justice.

Incredible.

[Torie]

Disgraceful, contemptible, incredible ... the rest of the story, ... ludicrous, baneful, execrable, malodorous, noisome, socialistic, eristic, infra dig, calumnious, toxic, prevaricating, oleaginous, sophistic, etc.