My head is spinning

MANIFESTO

Between non-stop basketball, the US Attorney doings, and today's hearings on the Plame outing, it's hard to focus on one subject. However, I think the real story of the day will come from the hearings. Specifically,

In the second panel in the House Oversight Committee hearings this morning, following the testimony of Valerie Plame-Wilson, the Director of the White House Security Office, James Knodell, has stunned the Congress members by disclosing that no investigation into the leaking of Plame-Wilson's covert identity as a CIA operative was ever conducted by his office.

The repercussions of this revelation should be interesting for at least two reasons.

First, Bush outright lied. We all remember President Unelected's promise to fire anyone in his administration who broke the law in the episode. The testimony makes it clear that the promise was baseless as no White House investigation was ever directed to take place.

Second, the testimony sure makes it look as if the Bushies knew what an investigation would uncover, thus making sure not to have such an investigation proceed.

Either one of these scenarios is damning and is the reason I think this incredible testimony will be on tomorrow's front pages.

It goes without saying that this kind of stuff has been going on in the White House since January 21, 2001. It's only because of the hideous occupation in Iraq that the utter incompetence and treachery of the Bushies are coming to light. If the invasion had been a success, such perfidy wouldn't have even been looked into. Now, however, the Iraq fiasco has got people thinking that perhaps the Bushies are capable of other failures.

I don't want to appear callous, but this may be the only argument that can be used to show that the more than 3200 Americans who have died in Iraq did not do so in vain.

(Post edited to remove redundancies.)