Turd Blossom Express Reached End of Line?

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Has the Turd Blossom Express Reached The End of the Line?

Arianna Huffington
7-12-05

The Rove Scandal Train is picking up momentum (even here in Nice)… just ask Scottie McClellan, who is starting to look more and more like Ron Ziegler with every passing press briefing.

Actually, two separate Rove trains have left the station (and, no, this isn't going to be one of those old algebra problems they used to give us). The legal train and the political train -- heading along two very separate tracks. But it's now clear that the White House damage control team has decided to try and link the two (maybe this is one of those algebra problems: "If two trains leave the White House heading in opposite directions, one leading to a Federal courthouse and the other to Political Siberia, can even a Boy Genius keep both of them from going off track?").

The White House strategy is actually a very smart one. As Lawrence O'Donnell has explained in detail, the bar is set very high on proving Rove broke the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. As Victoria Toensing, who was chief counsel to the Senate intelligence committee when the law was enacted, put it, "We made it exceedingly difficult to violate." (Wonder if she passed this tidbit on to her good pal Bob Novak before he outed Plame?).

Indeed, according to the New York Times, only one person has been prosecuted under the relevant statute -- a CIA clerk in Ghana who ID'd two CIA agents to a boyfriend (some kind of strange pillow talk? "Yeah, tell me who's covert, baby!").

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/has-the-turd-blossom-expr_4061.html