traitorgators and more indictments

* reddhedd has re-read the indictments - go read what she has to say

* and jane thinks that its funny that Rove's defense appears to be that he spoke to adam levine once and *didnt* mention the 'get wilson' campaign and therefore Rove must be innocent.

* here's digby echoing kathleen reardon: "Can there be any doubt that the Bush administration bet the farm on the idea that the press would keep their mouths shut? And can we all see that they were very close to being right? If Fitzgerald hadn't been willing to take it to the mat, they would have gotten off scott free."

* billmon: "After reading Libby's indictment (soon to be a major motion picture) for a third time, I'm even more puzzled by Fitzgerald's decision not to charge Scooter with either an IIPA or an Espionage Act violation... In other words, the few loose ends he's still tying up may include squeezing Libby until he coughs up the whole hairball of the conspiracy, including the vice president's role in it. Right now, though, it doesn't look like justice has been well served, or even fully baked."
as i said yesterday - i can only imagine that fitz has laid out the case for the lawyers of all the other perps to see what he can charge them with if he wants - including libby - if he so chooses.

* "So why has Fitzgerald been so skeptical of Rove's story? Probably because it is almost identical to Libby's. Like Libby, Rove claimed that when he spoke to reporters he was merely passing along gossip he'd heard from other journalists or from cocktail party chatter. That similarity alone would be enough to make any prosecutor suspicious. But add to that the fact that Rove's description of his conversation with Bob Novak is very similar to Libby's description of his conversations with both Cooper and Russert. In all three cases, the journalist (supposedly) already knew about Plame. And Rove's description of his conversation with Novak is almost word-for-word identical to Libby's description of his conversation with Cooper." (link)