Add Cockburn's voice to those who are not particularly bothered by the Rove & the Plame affair.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/cockburn
"Thank God Rove is not to be indicted, so the left will have to talk about something else for a change. As a worthy hobbyhorse for the left, the whole Plame scandal has never made any sense. What was it all about in the first analysis? Outing a CIA employee. What's wrong with that?"
Carrol ___________________________________
The point of it (to me at least) was never that it was about outing a CIA employee, it was the fact that it was:
a) an excellent way to expose the right-wing stance that they really care about national security(for true!) as the farce that it is
b) a pretty good example to show how much in bed even such 'liberal' media establishments as the NYT were with the current administration, therefore helping remove the 'liberal' label.
of course, if there were to be indictments, it would be a small measure of revenge for the way the unprecedented anti-war efforts were deep-sixed by the people from a & b
-- "All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." -Albert Einstein