Focus on: Players in Plame leak

[struggle4progress]

With main question answered early, why did probe continue?
By TOM HAMBURGER AND RICHARD T. COOPER, Los Angeles Times
September 10, 2006

.. The discovery of Armitage's role - and the fact that it had been known to investigators so early - is stirring administration defenders to fury ..

The special counsel declined to comment. And the argument has become intensely partisan ..

According to the book "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War," by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Fitzgerald had barely arrived in Washington when he received a thick binder filled with FBI reports .... that .... made clear that senior White House officials had been discussing Plame's status not just with Novak but with other Washington journalists - including Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine ..

"We now know that almost from the beginning of the case, the prosecutor was confronted with two different investigative tracks," said Dan French, .... "... and a prosecutor in this situation would feel compelled to pursue both" ...

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_4981599,00.html

Clear, factual summary of some basic issues in the Plame case ...

[Demeter]

1. Here Are Three Possible Reasons: Feel Free To Add More

1) Ken Starr's legacy.

2) There's a lot more criminal activity going on than has been publicly acknowledged yet.

3) Fishing for bribes.

Personally, I'm betting on #2. Because the alternatives would have been resolved already.