Agreed. A plea bargain, $50,000 in fines and removal of his security clearance for 3 years, just like Berger got. I'm sure this will be ok with the lefties, as they seemed satisfied w/Berger's sentence.

Now how 'bout posting that cropped shot of Bbeck in the Ace of Spades tee? I need to be stimulated, dammit!

I can't believe someone beat me to the Berger slam. Damn...

Are there recordings or corroborative eyewitnesses, or is this just three separate he said/she said recollections?

Sounds like a whole lotta bullshit to me.

Job 1 was to figure out how the hell Plame could have been covered by the statute. I thought that was already disproved by several different tests.

assuming that Fitzgerald is being straight

Taking so much of the MSM and rogue CIA dreck at face value looks like BDS to me.

As I said in an earlier post on this subject:

"So who would perjure? Not any administration official. Rove and Libby and friends were probably advised from the start to tell no lies and that there was no crime. As a lawyer, I would be sure to inform them of that (and of their fifth amendment rights).

So, unless there is a desire to publicly embarrass themselves, there should be no charges against admin officials."

Well, I was wrong on the big question, but like Libby, I got it on the follow up. I was right that someone would have to act in a foolish manner, and from the prosecutor's side, it does not seem like a he said-she said scenario, but a "thats my story and I am sticking to it" scenario.

He should have just sat there and done his impression of a potato. Stupid.

So...

Why DID Scooter give Judith Miller permission to talk if he was intentionally breaking the law?

I wonder what happened to that vile POS lefty troll who claimed a star was added to the CIA Wall of Honor due to the Plame disclosure. Come out, little troll, and read this.

He should have just sat there and done his impression of a potato. Stupid.

I find it amazing that after 50 years of Dragnet, Perry Mason, and Law & Order, anyone ever says anything at all to a prosecutor. Even if you never commit a crime, they'll back you into one through a purjury charge.

As much as I hate to say it, Rehnquist was probably right about Miranda.

Oh yeah, Tubino came out and said she was a NOC.

Of course, if she was such a big deal, she should not have gotten her husband a junket with the CIA. And then the husband should not have gone to the NYT's.

The enraging thing is that the prosecutor started out this press conference with a lot of throwaway lines about how classified Plame was, but leaves it to the end of the talker to say, well "thats not what I'm saying."

Either way, its over. 2 years and they got Scooter because he tried to float a story to the grand jury. Sorry, no security laws or anything material violated. Have a nice life.

*If* Libby is found guilty, the Berger Standard sounds about right to me.

Alternatively, if the left wants to set a harsher standard of punishment, then let's apply it to the next NYT reporter who compromises national security; if the Left objects, we can just remind them where we got the idea.

Speaking of the NYT's, what about the outing of the CIA's underground terror airline system? That was a big deal.

As long as we are talking big deals, hasn't the UN Oil for Supporting Saddam report been published today?

All this media attention on the Plame Myth.

Oh, please! How many grand juries out there are going on for 2 years looking into BS like this? This is not the even handled application of justice.

P.S. Libby didn't take the Fifth because if he did, W would have had to fire him. And everyone would have assumed he outed Plame.

I felt all along the whole deal had a stale lifeless quality. I'm no conspiracy theorist. Never have been, and never will be. But I honestly believe the CIA has been outed on this one. Whatever little pony party the Dems want to throw for themselves.

The larger shame is the Dems are cheering what I see as a very dangerous turf battle. One that has not enhanced national security. One can only hope that the public scenes, hide some rather intense beeootch slapping, taking place backstage?

The Dems ...... live and on the air, unaware.