Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Plamegate: Reporting for Doody
E.J. Dionne gets at an important truth:
This is not "just perjury", not just lies to cover up a treasonous crime. Those specific lies were told to delay the investigation until the election was over. Had 'Plamegate" not been obstructed in 2004 we would have a President John Kerry right now.
Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked?full post @ daily kosIn his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was reelected, and October 2005, after the president was reelected. Those dates make clear why Libby threw sand in the eyes of prosecutors, in the special counsel's apt metaphor, and helped drag out the investigation
This is not "just perjury", not just lies to cover up a treasonous crime. Those specific lies were told to delay the investigation until the election was over. Had 'Plamegate" not been obstructed in 2004 we would have a President John Kerry right now.
