[STARWISE]

Nevertheless, some are already arguing about whether the parsimonious prosecutor's expenditures in the Valerie Plame case were worth the results.

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I'd rather he'd spend more and do a real search for the whole truth.

[STARWISE]

PING~!

[scott7278]

I'd rather he'd spend more and do a real search for the whole truth.

Yes, one that doesn't involve a perjury trap for a party not even related to the investigation.

[jwparkerjr]

There is absolutely no comparison between the two cases! I won't bore the reader with a laundry list of the those differences, but the simply in no comparison.

[seasoned traditionalist]

Gee, wonder if we threw him another couple hundred grand, if we could get him to lookisee at who was responsible for divulging the NSA wiretap info as well as the latest NIE leaks?

I'll chip in $2.00.

[A CA Guy]

It was really over day two when he found out who did it.

The rest of the time seems to have been spent getting innocent people to fall for a technical perjury rap.

[Lancey Howard]

The Washington Post got the headline "right" - - they know how to take a cue over at that place.

Fitz wants to drop this case like a hot potato and he's laying the groundwork: "Well, even though we have decided to drop the case (out of national security concerns, don't you know) we are happy to report that it didn't cost the taxpayers very much, relatively speaking." (Notice how the WashPost dutifully reports the costs of the investigations into the Clinton Administration?

Yeah, this case is about to be dropped. And if I was Libby I would immediately sue every-freakin-body.

[Hannibal Hamlin]

What a moronic article.

Fitzgerald is a Special Prosecutor. He operates within the Department of Justice and uses his existing staff as the US Attorney of Chicago to run this case.

Starr was an Independent Counsel. He was completely separate from the Department of Justice, and had to fund his office from the ground up. Office space. Attorneys. Secretaries. Investigators. Etc.

[Gil4]

He might have been able to spend more time/money if there was actually any evidence or wrong-doing. With what he had, I'd say he milked it pretty well.

[Tall_Texan]

CIA Leak Probe Relatively Inexpensive

..ignoring for the moment that it was a fraud based on a fraud.

[unspun]

$71.5 can buy alot of flack jackets, or shore up the armor on many Hummers, or help to pay down the national debt, or ...be spent at the discretion of its owner, the taxpayer.

[AmeriBrit]

I have a question I'd like to ask all those DC big-wigs.

Why does it always cost so much more to prosecute democRATs than it does Republican's?

The only reasonable answer I can come up with is because the lies slide off democRATs lips so easily you can never tell when they're telling the truth and when they aren't.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The WaPo is full of it, unless they mean $1.4 mil. (and growing) is a bargain when trying to discredit the Bush Administration.

[OldFriend]

The bias in this article is simply dripping over every single word.

To these traitors, the roiling of the White House while there are those who would incinerate all, is the most important factor in this non case.

[ricks_place]

Administration Cooperation = Low Cost Plame Investigation

Administration Stonewalling = High Cost Whitewater Investigation

[DustyMoment]

I strongly doubt the figure cited. $1.4 million is barely enough to get a court room opened in Wash. DC for one day.

This is a WaPo story - it's NOT gospel!!

[RedRover]

...laid bare an Oval Office intent on squelching a critic of the Iraq war...

No, it didn't. The Libs can repeat this all they want, but it won't make it true.

[mewzilla]

CIA Leak Probe Relatively Inexpensive

A good reputation is priceless.

[wildbill]

Right! Actually these government employees weren't going to be doing anything important anyway so it was a good thing that Fitzgerald found them something to do.

[Enchante]

"Fitzgerald's probe roiled the White House, laid bare an Oval Office intent on squelching a critic of the Iraq war...."

What a pile of 'Rat feces!! This mantra of the MSM (adopted from the sleazebag David Corn and Joe Wilson himself) is truly psychotic - no amount of failed lib articles and Joe Wilson rants can hide the FACT that there is not a shred of evidence that anyone in the WH tried to "squelch" blowhard Wilson. This is what the left has come down to, any attempt to gather FACTS and reply to one of the most depraved traitors in this nation's history amounts to trying to "squelch" him. Yup, the left says "let us rant and rail and rave, and don't you dare try to reply."