> The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports that the recent untrue
> claim that Rove had been indicted was written by "a journalist who
> has battled drug addiction and mental illness and been convicted of
> grand larceny."
We don't know yet for sure that Rove hasn't been indicted; only that he has not been formally cleared. It is possible that the indictment has been issued but is now sealed, pending further investigations. Another possibility is that an indictment has been squashed by AG Gonzales, Fitzgerald's putative boss. More speculation: that Leopold was fed this misinformation as part of a Rovian tactic to smear the left-wing blogosphere. If so, it is now pile-on time, with all Leopold's dirty laundry being aired in public -- true to form.
All good sport. However, the one place you don't find useful commentary or even interesting speculation on the Plame scandal is in the columns of the Bush-syncophantic media critic of the WaPo.
As much as I'd like to see Rove in orange, I take the long view, best expressed by Sidney Schanberg: "I have no stake in whether any Bush White House heavy goes to jail in the Plamegate scandal; incarceration is not required for the public to recognize a failed presidency." <http://villagevoice.com/news/0547,schanberg,70242,6.html>
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam