Funmurphys: the Blog

Another Confederacy of Dunces

I don't think I'm the only one who's licking his chops at the thought of the Scooter Libby trial and the thought of all those top drawer journalists hauled into court and forced to testify. What a gratifying spectacle that will be. It's too bad they don't allow TV cameras into court rooms - they really ought to make an exception in this case. Perhaps it could be on pay-per-view, I know I'd pay good money to watch. It would be Reality TV at it's finest. Instead we will have to content ourselves with comparing the carefully sanitized version from the organizations who have their minions testifying and independent outlets. I'm reminded of the ending of Samson - you know, where the Philistines capture him and make sport of him in their temple, so he pulls the temple down on him and them.

Do I know if Scooter lied or not? No, I wasn't party to the conversations. I do think lying during a criminal investigation is not just a bad thing, but a legally punishable one. My problem is that once Fitzgerald concluded that no law had been broken by the leak of Ms. Plame's connection to the CIA, then his whole investigation should have been over. And that conclusion had nothing to do with his investigation of Libby - in fact, that should have been determination number one. And once the determination was made that there was no crime, then the Fitzgerald should have shut the whole enterprise down and gone back to actual crime fighting. If Fitzgerald got sand in his eye, it was because he took it off the ball. Instead, he went ahead to try and find out who said what to whom when in Washington. Good luck buddy, you'll need it.