swim, rover!

(darkblack did it!) 

Gosh, summer's on the way.  School's almost out and the Libby trial is over.  I can't get my learner's permit until next summer and my best friend is going off to band camp for a month.

Sigh.  What on earth will I do with all this time I'm going to have on my hands?  Maybe I should take up Japanese calligraphy again.  Or take a piano class.  Oh, hey, what's this from CREW? 

CREW WRITES PATRICK FITZGERALD ASKING TO RE-OPEN ROVE CASE IN LIGHT OF MISSING EMAILS

Oh, hurrah!!  I love a good summer sequel! I am clapping my tiny forelimbs with delight! 

13 Apr 2007 // Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to reopen his investigation of Karl Rove's role in disclosing Valerie Plame Wilson's status as a covert CIA operative in light of recent revelations about missing White House email.

Why, I think that's a capital idea, CREW!  How does Monday morning look for you?

Press reports indicate that Mr. Rove uses a Republican National Committee (RNC) email account for 95% of his communications. In addition, the RNC's counsel has admitted that all of Mr. Rove's emails prior to 2005 have been destroyed. Moreover, the White House has admitted that – as CREW reported yesterday – five million emails are missing from the White House servers. All of this raises serious questions about whether Mr. Rove knowingly destroyed evidence relevant to the Special Counsel's inquiry and whether Mr. Fitzgerald received all relevant documents.

It certainly does.

Hmmmm.  Does anybody know where there might be a massive team of dedicated Plame-ologists just, you know, hanging out, conducting training maneuvers, and keeping their search engines warm?  I wonder...hrrrm.  Seems like that would be really hard to come by, a sprawling network of legal minds and laymen with a deep and intimate knowledge of the case and the circumstances surrounding it.  Yeah, sheesh.  I hope they can even find some people who care about that whole Plame thing.  Lord knows everybody around here was too busy to follow it.  I heard that whole business was a big partisan to-do. There wasn't an underlying crime at all, right?

You know, there was a moment right after the verdict came back in the Libby trial when I thought, "Well, I guess this is about...it, really, aside from the post-game shows and wrap-up.  What will we do now?"

Then came Valerie's testimony to the Congressional Committee and once all that was done I thought, "Well, I guess that's the end of that.  Boy, what a terrific story to cover.  Whew!  I wonder what we'll do next."

Well, strap yourselves in and hang on to something, firedogs.  These next few weeks could get very exciting.  It might be time for Marcy to start her second volume on this topic.  (I'm told that someone has already suggested a title, Anatomy of "Delete".)

And if you'd like something to do on this cold, wet weekend (WTF, man?), grab your rake and join the Document Dump Dive-Team, who are hard at work over in Muckraker land.  Chop, chop, kids!  Got to represent for the FDL.  Aw, yeah.

What's that sound?  Off in the distance, do you hear that?  It sounds kind of like...frogs marching.  They say that means it's going to be a really, really hot summer in Washington.

Boy, it makes me want to call Fitzgerald's office, just so I can hear how they say, "No comment" this time.  On which syl-LA-ble will their inscrutable spokesperson Randall "Marcel Marceau" Samborn place the em-PHA-sis? 

Or perhaps he will say "No comment" with a rising or falling inflection.  "No comment"?  "No comment."?  "NOOOOO comment"?

Damn Special Prosecutors.  They think they're all special and shit.