novaks source

billmon:

"So the night before definitely has an eve-of-battle feel about, a sensation which I'm sure is supercharged with adrenaline for those directly involved in the case. If this were a play or a movie -- Henry V or The Thin Red Line -- kings and generals would be wandering their camps in disguise, checking up on morale, or delivering soliloquies into the darkness, about the loneliness of command.

But it's reality, so I imagine Fitzgerald is answering a few late-night emails, while Shrub snores and dreams that he's falling off his mountain bike, over and over again. Rove, I dunno, maybe he's reviewing his contract to see whether Lucifer can repossess his soul in the event of indictment.

I dearly hope tomorrow does bring indictments -- not so much out of schadenfreude (although its certainly there) but because then we would finally begin to get a glimpse at the truth about the outing of Valerie Plame, or as close to the truth as a two-year-long FBI investigation can get. Hard facts instead of educated guesses (or ridiculous ones.) Named witnesses instead of "lawyers involved in the case." Sworn testimony instead of anonymous gossip.

The questions at stake in the case are, of course, relatively trivial (except for the defendants, and for the Wilsons.) They look even more insignificant next to the sinister mysteries surrounding the march to war in Iraq and the post-invasion cover up, of which the plot against Wilson was just a small part. Still, after two years of playing the redneck edition of Clue, it would be an almost physical relief to know the identity of the real leaker -- whether it was Dick Cheney in the Old Executive Office Building with a scrambler phone, or Ari Fleischer on Air Force One with a classified memo."

billmon is correct when he says "The questions at stake in the case are, of course, relatively trivial" - i dont give a fuck who called novak or where 'Flame' came from or any of the other detail. i dont even care about punishing the perpetrators, per se.

i have 3 major reasons that i hope fitzmas comes with a big hammer:
1. so that these horrible fucking people dont start any new wars - altho im really concerned about the latest noise about syria and iran - including the odd possibility of an 'october surprise' in an off-year.
2. so that the 'situation' in iraq has the slightest chance of not 'exploding' into something much, much worse. amongst all of the terrible possible scenarios in iraq, the least problematic is an america 'govt' running with its tail between its legs - with a sense of apology/wrongdoing/shame
3. the rest of the world needs america to be a beacon on the hill - not some science-hating, torture-lovin, freedom-hating theocracy