Why Rove shouldn't matter...

[JackRiddler]

A real prosecutor assigned to the Bush regime would have nailed them instantly for their six-year-plus violation of the Presidential Records Act, an act of Congress (therefore superior to any executive orders) under which the Reagan White House records should have been released in 2001. Open and shut case. Let the Supreme Court rule otherwise.

A real prosecutor would march up with writs for Zakheim and Rumsfeld and demand to review the audit that found the Pentagon could not account for 2.3 trillion dollars in assets.

A real prosecutor could have bagged the Office of Special Plans and the White House Iraq Group for their conspiracy to mislead the public about Iraq long ago.

A real 9/11 investigation would have caused the resignation of the whole crew and indictments at the least for criminal negligence of the top civilian and miltary echelons.

A magistrate with courage would go after them for violating constitutional rights of the citizens ("enemy combatant") and using and condoning torture around the world.

Why are any of you people falling for the Plame distraction? The CIA is a criminal organization, nearly unmatched in history for its perfidy. Revealing the names of its agents, as Philip Agee did to prompt the original law under which Libby was indicted, was once a heroic act. Now that something even worse is around - a privatized CIA-like network surrounding the Bush mob and running the country as a criminal syndicate - the left is conned into championing the CIA as some kind of patriotic troupe. This is a battle carefully chosen as a safe one by the CIA, with purpose of cutting down the Bush mob without revealing too much of the systemic rot.

Yes, it seems true that Plame's name was revealed in an effort to pay back Wilson for not endorsing the regime's lies about Iraq. Which is a crime, but on what scale, exactly, compared to the original forgery of the Niger documents, or knowingly lying to the world in front of the Security Council, or writing the policy that did not just condone but guaranteed an Abu Ghraib (to cite three of hundreds of possible examples)?

Don't fall for it. Keep your eyes on the real crimes. Sadly, only a mass outrage expressed in millions of people crying for justice on the street is likely to get an investigation of what really matters.