I’m already hearing this spin, over and over, from talking heads across the dial: because there’s no indictment on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act, obviously no crimes fitting those statutes were committed.

Rubbish.

Good prosecutors are sometimes careful to prosecute only slam-dunk charges, and Patrick Fitzgerald is one of the best; that doesn’t mean other crimes weren’t committed.

The GOP spin equates to claiming that just because Al Capone was only nailed on tax evasion, therefore he was never a mob boss, and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre simply never happened.

PS — Fox anchor Bill Hemmer has also already repeated the absolute falsehood that
sending Joe Wilson to Niger was his wife’s idea.  But that’s Fox. 

"Scotter Libby" = "I COBBLE STORY"

Couldn’t resist.  OK.  Reading now.

… is here. 

If you have time, turn off the Noise Machine and read it for yourself.

More: prosecutor’s press release, which is a summary explanation, is here.

This is actually true: Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-IL) has started a blog.  (First heard about it thanks to Wonkette.)

It’s outstanding.

Because in its very first entry, it confirms all of your very worst nightmares.

Is he unimpressive?  Oh, my yes.  On blogging:

Murray Waas posted this to the National Journal today.  Have a read.  But the first sentence gives the gist:

If Cheney and Libby tell the truth in 2004, more people realize the war started because they were full of crap.

And Bush doesn’t come close to re-election.

So throw that on the stack.