The Plame Affair: A New Jury

Guess what, kids. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to convene a new Grand Jury and show them new evidence in the ongoing Plame Affair investigation. This investigation is far from over.

The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case announced today that he wants to convene a new federal grand jury, a clear signal that the indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr. may not be the last episode in the affair.

"The investigation is continuing," the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, said in a court filing here. He said the investigation would now involve a grand jury different from the one that indicted Mr. Libby, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, three weeks ago.

The Plame Affair, again, is the criminal investigation we hope will prove the willfull attempt to expose the undercover wife of an Administration critic who had disputed the legitamacy of one of the key pieces of evidence used to take this country to war. It has since been shown, by lack of absolutely any evidence on the ground in Iraq, that nearly every reason The Administration has given to us as justification for the war has been, simply, wrong.

Whatever the outcome of The Plame Affair, there are still massive faults in the reasons we've undertaken this war, the ways that The Administration offered intelligence and debate to the public [or even to members of the Cabinet], and the administration of the war and the followup from the war.

And... I'm done rambling.