It was the special prosecutor's objective to find out who 'leaked' Wilson's wife's name to Novak, who broke the  story. Well, after 3 years, we now know who the target of the prosecutor's investigation was. The number two in the Colin Powell State Department, Richard Armitage. What is disturbing is that Fitzgerald knew this in the first two months of his investigation, and Armitage wasn't charged then or now.
If the special prosecutor was investigating a supposedly treasonous act, then why did Armitage get a pass? Maybe because Valerie Plame, because of what her job was for the last few years, was not protected under the law that Fitzgerald was charged to apply? Maybe, but Fitzgerald hasn't said one way or the other. But look at what we do know.
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We know that Fitzgerald kept the investigation in the news for years after he knew the person he was, ostensibly, after.
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His investigation took us to the White House and just stayed there. Rove is going down. Cheney is in on it too. We heard years of this from the MSM and the Democrat party leaders. -
We know of three people who knew but remained mute about who the 'leaker' was. All the while watching the administration get tarred and feathered (worse for Scooter Libby) to the extent that public opinion reacted to it, negatively. But I digress, the three were Richard Armitage (the perp), Colin Powell, and the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
According to public opinion polls on Bush and the Bush administration, the MSM deserves an Oscar for the fraud they help commit on the people of this country in this case. After three years of almost daily front-page pounding this story line, the NYT buries the Armitage news in the Washington section of the paper, reducing the whole episode to 'a tantalizing mystery.'
No one is suggesting that there was anything conspiratorial between the Powell State Department and the special prosecutor. Taken on their own, the actions of both were despicable, and in the case of Fitzgerald, maybe criminal. It isn't illegal to be disloyal for political payback. It just shows the character of the person. Criminal for Patrick Fitzgerald. Criminal in the sense that this investigation should have ended when he found out who the perp was. To take it to a grand jury if he thought there was a case, or end it. The fact that Fitzgerald did neither, and instead produced political arrows aimed at the administration for three years. This raises the question of prosecutorial abuse and professional and ethical misconduct. It's Fitzgerald who needs to answer to a grand jury.
Opinion Journal:Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest.
[T]he person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson.
JOE WILSON: THE END OF AN ERROR
Remember when senators Harry Reid of Nevada, who is the minority leader, John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Carl Levin of Michigan, demanded security clearances be yanked from the leakers? That's when they wanted it to be Karl Rove. Now that we know who it was, I wonder if they still feel that way?
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