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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I think Fitzgerald needs to bring charges on both the leak and the cover-up. If he just brings them just on the cover-up, he'll get creamed in the press and shift public opinion in favor of Rove, a la Martha Stewart. The public doesn't really understand how there can be obstruction of justice without and underlying offense.
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Fitz gets creamed worst if he brings nothing. He's made to look impotent or bought, or both.
You're right to make the Stewart analogy, but I think you misead the public's reaction to her case. They viewed her as an unfairly attacked trophy defendant. BUT, they also viewed her as guilty. AND, they viewed her as deserving some penalty for her sheer arrogance to think that she couldd work a cover up. People might lament that politics is at the core of the Rove investigation, but they're already beginning to say "Why didn't he just fucking fess up?" Rove ends up looking like Clinton.
Bush is safe. His people kept him from any real knowledge. They're students of Watergate. Now Cheney... he might just be arrogant enough to have demanded to be "in the know" on the cover up. Spiro Agnewing him would be better, IMO, than nailing the chief.
