Now that we have confirmation that it was Richard Armitage, and NOBODY inside the Bush White House, who gave Robert Novak the name of Joseph Wilson's wife, I wonder how Lewis Libby can get his good name, career and reputation back? Since he is guilty of nothing other than possibly not remembering details of conversations he had several years ago with reporters, it is now hard to see why the charges against him haven't yet been dismissed. These conversations, as it turns out were not about any kind of criminal activity whatsoever! That's very important in this case, because all the principals involved, the state department, the reporters and almost certainly the prosecutors knew that Libby had not committed any crime involving disclosure of classified information, which was the purported justification for starting the investigation in the first place. Why then did they allow the investigation to go on -- and on -- and on -- and on!? Why did they spend millions of taxpayers dollars and years, and years to investigate a non-crime?
It would be like a prosecutor suspecting you of embezzling bank funds. Early on they find out you didn't do it. The bank was mistaken, no crime took place. But instead of dropping the investigation, they discover during the course of their three years of interviews, that your neighbors say you planted yellow roses in your back yard, and you told them they were white roses. Bango! They have you for lying to a federal investigator! It is too silly to even contemplate, but it's exactly what happened to Libby.
The truth is that Armitage, like most of the career bureaucrats in the State Department, HATES George Bush. It goes without saying that democrats and their allies in the major media hate him. They are willing to go to any length to damage his presidency, including fostering a ridiculous, wasteful, years-long investigation about a non-crime.
Lewis Libby should have all charges against him immediately dismissed. He didn't do anything wrong and doesn't deserve having his life ruined any more that it already has been. This is nothing but politics of the meanest, lowest sort, and shouldn't be tolerated. Even the leftists should be ashamed of themselves and should be first in line, right behind Fitzgerald, to apologize to Libby.
