The beginning or the end?

Everyone else is talking about the Scooter Libby indictment, so I guess I have to write something. Andrew Sullivan says things are going to get much, much worse for the Bush Administration, while the Professor (who has a huge roundup of blog reaction at his site) says this is far, far less than we'd been led to expect.

I'm inclined to agree with InstaPundit - the omnipotent Mr. Rove wasn't indicted, though he remains under investigation, and Libby is not charged with "outing" a CIA agent - but really, it's impossible to say for sure. If Libby or anyone else committed a criminal offence, they deserve to be punished, and that's all there is to it. (For obvious reasons, it's disingenuous for Republicans to now say perjury is no big deal.)

This article by Stephen Hayes, from last week's Weekly Standard, puts the Niger uranium controversy in perspective. The indictment itself (which I haven't read yet) is at - where else? - The Smoking Gun.

Posted by damian at October 28, 2005 06:02 PM | TrackBack