Thursday, March 08, 2007

Don't Stop with Libby

Good enough to lift in its entirety, photo and all. Andrew Sullivan...
After Libby
Something is rotten in the heart of Washington; and it lies in the vice-president's office. The salience of this case is obvious. What it is really about - what it has always been about - is whether this administration deliberately misled the American people about WMD intelligence before the war. The risks Cheney took to attack Wilson, the insane over-reaction that otherwise very smart men in this administration engaged in to rebut a relatively trivial issue: all this strongly implies the fact they were terrified that the full details of their pre-war WMD knowledge would come out. Fitzgerald could smell this. He was right to pursue it, and to prove that a brilliant, intelligent, sane man like Libby would risk jail to protect his bosses. What was he really trying to hide? We now need a Congressional investigation to find out more, to subpoena Cheney and, if he won't cooperate, consider impeaching him.

First read that a few days ago, and I just came across it again. Sullivan is one of those guys who is very frustrating. He is such a good writer, and he seems to get it much of the time, but, unlike say, John Cole, he is unwilling to completely abandon the party that has long since abandoned him.

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