I just wanted to make a note, for the record. As Patrick Fitzgerald prepares to indict senior Administration officials, it is reported that he may choose to indict them under criminal conspiracy charges. Namely, a felony was committed - the leaking of the name and covert operative status of Valerie Plame Wilson - and several members of the Administration, including Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, and Ari Fleischer, were involved. So this is prima facie a conspiracy if he gets indictments on two or more of these. (The smearing of Joe Wilson was basically a self-anointed task of the WHIG group.)
As I have argued in these pages, the President himself has been aware for more than two years of Karl Rove's involvement in this conspiracy. To my knowledge, he has not during this time cooperated with the Fitzgerald investigation, or reported his knowledge of Rove's involvement to proper authorities.
In other words, if there is a criminal conspiracy, our President himself is an accessory after the fact - if not a co-conspirator.
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I fully agree with your evaluation, Derek. Fitgerald, in his indictments, will hopefully fully uncover the activities of the WHIGs. If he places them on a firm factual footing, I don't see how Cheney and Bush could avoid being swept into the conspiracy charge. Then again, Reagan stayed out of the Iran/Contra chages, and then the American people elected Bush pere over Dukakis.
But, when the WHIG group is uncovered, it will decimate the credibility of Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley and Karen Hughes, so we won't have to look forward to seeing them around anymore.
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