Will Plame vs. Cheney, Libby & Rove Unearth New Info?

Listen Up Dems.

Yes, we want you to investigate everything, from election theft, to 9/11, to the lies that got us into Iraq...the lies which have continued, unabated since then. We want to know all about the outing of Valerie Wilson and we want to know who all the Rethugs are who refused to do oversight, let alone investigations of the most corrupt administration in American hisotry.

How hard can this be, people?

Can you spell, ACCOUNTABILITY?

If you cannot or will not hold theese thugs accountable, we will have no choice but to hold you accountable, right along with them.

So lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.

Will Plame vs. Cheney, Libby & Rove Unearth New Info?:

Several years ago, I was talking to a Democratic senator on the intelligence committee about the CIA leak case. I asked if Democrats had any intention of pushing for a congressional investigation of the administration leak that appeared in Robert Novak's column and that outed Valerie Wilson as a CIA operative. The senator noted that a special counsel (Patrick Fitzgerald) was already on the case. That's true, I said, adding that it was not Fitzgerald's job to tell the public about his findings. His task was to investigate (secretly) a crime and then mount a prosecution if he could. Any information he would unearth would only become public were he to mention it in an indictment or a subsequent prosecution.

He would not be issuing any report. And at the end of Fitzgerald's inquiry, I said to the senator, there might no prosecution (or merely a limited prosecution) and that the public might not learn all there was to know about the case. So, I asked this legislator, if Democrats cared about the leak, shouldn't they push for a non-criminal investigation? The senator replied in an exasperated manner: 'You want us to investigate everything?'

Well, why not? But it was clear he wasn't interested in a congressional probe of the CIA leak case. Nor were many other Capitol Hill Democrats. Many were satisfied by the Fitzgerald appointment. But after investigating the case for over two years, Fitzgerald, has only indicted one Bush official, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and that was not for the leak but for lying to the FBI and Fitzgerald's grand jury. (Libby disclosed Valerie Wilson's employment at the CIA to New York Times reporter Judy Miller and confirmed it for Time correspondent Matt Cooper.)