NEW LEAD FROM AP:
The first sentence is a beaut!


"White House Maintains Silence about Rove
AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago
WASHINGTON - The White House is suddenly facing damaging evidence that it misled the public by insisting for two years that presidential adviser Karl Rove wasn't involved in leaking the identity of a female CIA officer. President Bush, at an Oval Office photo opportunity Tuesday, was asked directly whether he would fire Rove -- in keeping with a pledge in June, 2004, to dismiss any leakers in the case. The president did not respond. For the second day, White House press secretary Scott McClellan refused to answer questions about Rove."
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This is better than a "third-rate burglery".
Richard Brautigan once called (in a fiction, to be sure) the Civil War,"the last good time this country had."
Well, maybe for some of us Watergate was.
Frances Fitzgerald once contrasted Watergate and Iran/Contra as the difference between a Greek tragedy and an absurdist play. The one grand and simple, the other meandering and despite being more truthful, difficult to read. There's some truth in this as far as the larger public goes.
And maybe this comparison holds for Plame-gate and the DSM (Downing Street Minutes/Memo).
And I don't discount the idea that Plame-gate has more 'legs' as a story because it has one major villain, Rove.
But, because Plame-gate connects with DSM and the whole complex of issues that boil down to the current administration lieing to Congress and the American public to launch an illegal war, maybe we can have the Grand Wazoo. A great big combo-plate of a criminal scandal. Watergate and Iran/Contra rolled into one. Just thinking...
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