One thought has been going through my mind all day

[brettdale]

Patrick J Fitzgerald is America's only hope.

[spuddonna]

1. "Obi-Wan Fitzgerald, you are our only hope..." n/t

[Moochy]

2. I just thought of him too

Check out this great article from the toronto globe&mail by way of bradblog from August 21:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001743.htm

A Warning to Traitors: Fitzgerald pursues 'man at the top'

"Apply maximum pressure to reluctant witnesses in order to build an air-tight case against the most senior member of a criminal conspiracy."

[OKJackson]

3. Don't forget to read citizenspook

It's a different view on how things are unfolding, and it introduces and explains a set of laws that aren't being covered in most other analasys of the Plame / Brewster & Jennings outings.

http://citizenspook.blogspot.com/

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Yeah, I'm starting to think we can't count on Judge Alvin Hellerstein

If he was to wake people up to the reality of what's been done in our name... by releasing the remaining Abu Ghraib images that the gov't has been fighting tooth and nail to keep buried, at this point I really believe it entirely might sound the death knell for this disaster of a war in Iraq.

http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/

But after 2 years of standing up for the FOIA in the face of clear government stonewalling and game-playing, all of a sudden he's making noises like the high holy word of Gen. Myers comes straight from the Lord's Own Mouth.

His sudden, dramatic about-face sure as fuck makes ME wonder what, precisely, has been said to him, or whether the crazy rantings of Bill O'Reilly and the legions of internet brownshirts threatening to blame him personally for whatever happens if that stuff comes out have got to the guy.

[lazarus]

5. not much hope, either

Bush will simply pardon Rove, et al., and there's no way Fitzgerald's investigation could reach Bush to put him in jail.

Which sucks.