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How Many Katrina Victims Could the Fitzgerald Investigation Help?

It's a simple as this. Millions of dollars have been spent on the investigation into an administration leak of Valerie Plame's identity - an investigation based entirely on a bad premise, the premise being that a law was violated in that exposing the identities of CIA secret operatives, if knowingly revealed, is a crime. Only problem, Valerie Plame was not classified as a "secret" operative at the time her employment at the CIA was revealed, nor had she been a "secret" spy for five years prior.

This is like the police investigating me for not putting oregano in my spaghetti sauce. Even if I should lie and swear I add oregano each and every time, and I am caught in that lie which is a crime, the original investigation was bogus and based on no law being broken.

Couldn't we just investigate anyone for anything at all, hoping that they'll slip up and commit a crime during the investigation?

This whole thing is silly, but frankly I blame George W. Bush for openly endorsing such an investigation when, boom, right from the start there had been no law broken. And if revealing that someone works at the CIA is more a breach of ethics than broken laws, then should we be spending millions investigating the matter? Are there ethics committees for such thing or dare I suggest that the voters decide is such behavior is proper? Of course Bush was right in the middle of an election campaign when the situation arose, flamed by the hysterical media. For political expediency, Bush agreed to the investigation.

Every day we see pictures of the still-broken Gulf coast. We hear about Katrina victims being evicted from hotel rooms and we mourn the torn and wrecked former homes. Wouldn't it be nice if all that money fueling this stupid investigation could go to where it is really needed?

The Fitzgerald response to Scooter Libby's request for justification — based on the current law — for the investigation, is arrogance that knows no boundaries. Just because it's mentioned in the indictment is no reason the defense has any right to it, or so goes the flawed Fitzgerald response.

This case is going nowhere. Time to shut Fitz and his money machine down and give Libby his job back.