dowd and miller and becky sharp

* "By October 2004, Fitzgerald announced he was "for all practical purposes" finished. " (link)
last week i scoffed at those who were trying to triangulate the latest goings on and thusly inferring what will be in the indictment basket this week. fitz has had most of the case in the bag for 12 months - the last 12 months was just squeezing out the remaining drops - and he probably didnt have to trade many of his marbles...

* "A critical early success for Fitzgerald was winning the cooperation of Robert D. Novak, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist who named Plame in a July 2003 story and attributed key information to "two senior administration officials." Legal sources said Novak avoided a fight and quietly helped the special counsel's inquiry, although neither the columnist nor his attorney have said so publicly." (link)

* * last week i said "i guess that is confirmation that novak testified" - now it seems we really really have confirmation :-)

* Congressman Jerry Nadler: "We are no longer just talking about a Republican culture of corruption and cronyism... We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level, wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security." (link)
aka - impeachment.

* im sure you've seen modo's coulmn about judy - she refers to Becky Sharp - who im embarassed to say i didnt know. dcmedia girl fills in the gaps:

"None of the novel’s characters is more memorable than Becky Sharp, one of Victorian literature’s most remarkable creations. While Thackeray’s narrator takes pains to expose Becky’s subterfuges and to insinuate sexual immorality and even murder, we cannot help but admire her intelligence and élan. Alone among the novel’s major characters, she is not content to live out the life she was born into—that of a governess. Lacking money and family, she uses the only tools at her disposal, sex and cunning, to seek advancement in the world. Her success in gaining entrée to society’s most exclusive circles, despite the hostility of her husband’s family and a chronic lack of cash, is a testament to Becky’s audacity and brilliance, her ultimate downfall notwithstanding."