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To be perfectly honest, I didn't know a thing about John Roberts (the judge--hell, for that matter I don't know a whole lot about John Roberts the newscaster, except that he's...a television reporter)...from what I've read thus far, he's definitely a Bush loyalist (worked on winning the REAL election in 2000--the one decided by...Sandra O'Connor); as an attorney, he's drafted anti-choice briefs that warm the collective hearts of religious wingnuttia--but he's more likely to be at a DC power breakfast or lunch than snake handling outside Roanoke. The double Harvard credential (undergraduate and legal) and his previous confirmation to the DC Appeals Court will work in his favor...though there's the slight possibility that his mendacity towards Gulf War I POW's (hey, remember them? Wingnuts don't) and 12 year olds daring to want fries with their subway ride might make him sweat, but just a bit. For better or worse, it looks like we'll soon have Justice Roberts on the court--and whether mouth breathers like Tony Perkins and James Dobson consider him the answer to their 'nut prayers is something we'll find out down the road...

But...I digress. While the Roberts nomination is the latest shiny thing, there's still the rapidly tarnishing--though perpetually dull--Karl Rove. Today's revelation is yet another direct hit on the Roveweiler, who, to my knowledge, has no teflon, but instead relies on diversionary tactics--like the boss pointing and braying, "Hey, look over here--it's John Roberts!"

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not disclose that he had ever discussed CIA officer Valerie Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove’s first interview with the FBI, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

The omission by Rove created doubt for federal investigators, almost from the inception of their criminal probe into who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, as to whether Rove was withholding crucial information from them, and perhaps even misleading or lying to them, the sources said.

Lying to the FBI...Gee, I think you can go to jail for that. However, lying to the FBI is just one of many charges that could be filed against Rover, Scooter, and who knows who else (The Poor Man suggests a suitable sentence for Robert Novak should be be indicted and convicted: exposure to sunlight). Presumably, Fitzgerald is aware of this--so, even if the medulla reliant press corps drops the Rove potato(e), Karl is still bleeding--and, if Waas's reporting is correct, the wounds could be serious, if not, politically speaking, fatal.

Which might be the only justice we can expect for the evil bastard--public humiliation and (possibly) nominal jail time--which is better than nothing, but still pales in comparison to the crimes committed, which go far beyond smearing Joe Wilson and blowing Valerie Wilson's cover (oh, and, lest we forget, the cover of OTHERS who worked for Brewster Jennings & Associates, as well as exposing anyone known to have met with the company) for partisan hackery. No, Rove and Team Bush have blood on their hands--the blood of the soldiers who they sent off to war, inadequately equipped, on a mission that was a fraud. They have on their hands the blood of AT LEAST 25,000 innocent Iraqis, who barely merit a mention in the press (so much for wingnut "concern for the suffering Iraqi people"). And they've damaged the reputation of the United States, perhaps permanently.

Hell, even if Rove IS sentenced to six months or so, it's as if crime, in his case, paid.

But I wouldn't mind seeing Novak exposed to sunlight.