*SIGH*

MAYBE SOMEBODY DOES READ THIS BLOG The big story that Rove is "Official A" is now official news.  And even more importantly, Patrick Fitzgerald is now seen in a new light.  [NY Times]

It was as if Mr. Fitzgerald had suddenly morphed from the ominous star of a long-running silent movie into a sympathetic echo of Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables."

THE HERETIK APOLOGIZES for congratulating himself in a sad story where no one apologizes for anything.  Untouchables?  All this movie McKrap TM is so totally over the top and completely overdone.  Really.  Does this make Cheney Al Capone or something?  And what about Bush? 

THE HERETIK BELIEVES it is best we forget all that movie nonsense and concentrate now on Rove.  We hear Time magazine will have some serious news.

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ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE [Tennessee Guerilla Woman] But wait. Check out what former presidential advisor Dick Morris said on Fox News yesterday:

[I]t is very possible that the prosecutor looks up the food chain to Vice President Cheney. These investigations have a way of rising. And according to the terms of the indictment, Cheney told Libby about Valerie Plame and then Libby lied to the grand jury about how he found about it, saying that he got it from a reporter. Well, if that’s the case, the vice president knew that Libby was lying.

And it wasn’t like his grand jury was secret. It was all over the place, you could read it in any newspaper. So my question is, why didn’t the vice president say anything? Why didn’t he speak up? And when you’re out there committing perjury and your boss is silent, and your boss knows that you’re doing that, it’s [the silence is] a subtle signal from your boss to say, “I appreciate it.” [Video]

This brings to mind something one of the pundits on MSNBC said shortly after Fitzgerald's remarkable press conference: Fitzgerald has a reputation for 'squeezing' the #2 man in order to snare the #1 man.

AND THE HERETIK RECALLS something about The Untouchables.  Sigh.  Silence may be golden for Cheney in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion silence may fit him for some cement shoes.

RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP Jane Hamsher runs long and goes deep with the argument that it really is all about Cheney. Detailed footwork, elegant pattern, a long bomb. Touchdown.  The Heretik will leave the rest of the sports metaphors to Fitzgerald and return now to his own movie metaphors.



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[Sheik Yerhariboudi]

Rove tells Fitz: Hold off til Monday - I'll wrap up the Shrub and everyone else (Dick and Don, for example), yellowcake fake and all then.

Over the weekend, Karl makes his phonecalls: 43 and 41. They (or more likely Poppy alone, as Jr. is tanked and depressed, call Bandar and the Carlyle folks to arrange enough hush money to keep Karl quiet and take the fall.

Libby has already made his own arrangements and will either stick to them of cave in under the thought of imprisonment. It's reasonable to expect ten years to get firmly pinned.

This is Option One.

Option Two is where Karl goes back to Fitz and instead of reneging on his offer to squeal, he squeals anyway and keeps the hush money.

[egalia]

This is just like that damn election, can't stop obsessing over it long enough to sleep, eat, or whatever.

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