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perp or perps), or not. If he commits perjury and obstruction of justice, as a peripheral perp, or even just as a witness, he can and should be indicted. And prosecutors often use this power--the power of laws against lying to the FBI or to a grand jury--selectively, to squeeze the peripheral perps or witnesses for whatever truth they possess about the main perps, and to bust through coverups. I would guess that Fitzgerald realizes that Rove may have been used--was played, possibly by Libby on behalf of Cheney and others--as something of a fall guy in the outing of Plame. (He likely was willing, even eager, to do it--but not to be the fall guy for it.) The story was put out that it was Rovian revenge against Wilson for publishing his article on the false Niger nuke allegation against Iraq. A believable story, given Rove's reputation for dirty pool. This makes the outing look like a rash, over the top, political action, when in fact it may have had a much deeper and more serious origin, and it clearly involved more people. MOTIVE is something that Fitzgerald said he is looking for. He wants to know WHY this outing occurred, and he considers it a "matter of national security." Ergo, he is suspicious of the story of Rovian revenge.
I think that, if Fitzgerald is foiled in his quest for the motive and the main perps, it will be by Cheney suddenly admitting to ordering the Plame/Brewster-Jennings outing, and probably limiting his admitted motive to political revenge--thus keeping Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice and the rest of the junta out of it. And then, a number of things could happen (not in the interests of justice): Cheney could testify for Libby, saying he was under orders (thus maybe getting jury sympathy for Libby). Cheney could remain in office--with a slap on the wrist by Bush's "pod people" in Congress. (Cheney really doesn't give a !@#$ if his approval rating reaches zero--it's now about 18%. He could go to minus zero (!?), and his bribed, blackmailed, Diebold-dependent "pod people" still wouldn't act against him). Or he could resign, claiming health problems, and either delay legal proceedings indefinitely or get off with a Bush pardon. If he resigns, the Republicans could then install a new, fresh face as V-P, to be Diebolded into office in '08 (would be their intention).
I think the Fitzgerald prosecution is very serious, is by no means over, and will end in an attempted, orchestrated scenario, such as the above. Whether the Bush junta will be able to control events that much is an open question. (Even with Bush's buds at Diebold and ES&S counting all the votes with "trade secret," proprietary programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls--and can easily hack a 5% to 10% advantage to Republicans--Republican candidates still have to get SOME real votes in order to get Diebolded into office. They may be looking at defeats EVEN with their "trade secret" code advantage. And with serious Bush and Bushite scandals growing like a mushroom cloud over the Republican Party, they may have to take more drastic measures than just Cheney's retirement, in order to retain any credibility with the American people.)
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