Of course, the howlers howl. That is their assigned posture in this drama. They entered howling, they will leave howling and the only thing you can count on is their anger has been cynically manufactured from start to finish.
The farce is over. It has no significance. Nobody but Libby’s family will remember it in a few weeks time.
We know that Karl Rove leaked, even if he were not the first to do so. Prosecutor Fitzgerald chose not to indict, after multiple meetings with Rove's lawyers, for reasons that have never been explained. For better or worse, Fitzgerald is of the view that prosecutors should not discuss their reasons for not prosecuting. (One can debate, perhaps endlessly, the pros and cons of reports issued by special prosecutors in the years since Watergate.)
We don't know for sure VP Cheney's role in the particulars of the reprisals against Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie. (Brooks adverts to "the vice president['s] ... unfailing talent for vindictive self-destruction.") Given strong conclusions by judge and jury regarding Libby's intentional repeated perjuries and obstructions of Fitzgerald's inquiry, we can fairly presume that he did so for a reason pretty compelling to him, and protection of his longtime patron the VP (also known herein as The Dick) from accountability seems a likely suspect to be rounded up, perhaps along with the wayward W.
W, of course, gave his assurances that any leaker in the White House would be "taken care of". Quite so, with commutation of jail time now and the likelihood of a full pardon at the end of term.
The coverup seems to be working rather nicely,thank you.
Absent John Sirica, Sam Ervin, Peter Rodino, or their later-day apprentices, there it will end --unless the people rise up, and demand better.
And put the strutting Brooks back in his cage, with Bob Novak, Judith Miller, and others who have stained their profession with this sorry mess.
Howl.
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