"People" Point At Cheney

"People," according to Bloomberg, are saying VP Dick Cheney may be involved in the Wilson/Plame affair. According to these "people,"

Fitzgerald has questioned Cheney's communications adviser Catherine Martin and former spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise and ex-White House aide Jim Wilkinson about the vice president's knowledge of the anti-Wilson campaign and his dealings on it with Libby, his chief of staff, the people said.

What is the White House to do? A second-rate diplomat was running around leaking, then publicly disclosing, false information and bogus timelines in an effort to insert his personal beliefs into national policy.

MSM have portrayed this matter as a White House vendetta against a crusading whistle-blower; it was not. It was an effort to get the press on the right track with the right facts, and that couldn't be done without discrediting the lying, self-aggrandizing Wilson.

In this context, the true context, there was no reason for the White House to "out" Mrs. Wilson. (MSM probably refers to her as Plame, because it's impossible to disassociate "Mrs. Wilson" from the kindly and dumpy neighbor of Dennis Mitchell.) It therefore will likely be impossible for special prosecutor Fitzgerald to prove any willful intent to harm Mrs. W., and without that intent, he has no case.

Fitzgerald has been publicly quiet throughout the investigation, so I don't know if he's the kind of man who's courageous enough to just close down shop and say there was no crime. More and more, it's looking like that's what he ought to do, but the leaks -- Bloomberg's "people" likely are from the investigating staff -- indicate that he may grandstand instead, giving a second-rate diplomat exactly what he wants.