Your one stop shop for analysis of the denouement of Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury investigation is Jane Hamsher’s blog firedoglake. ReddHedd has been a posting machine the last few days.
The news is flying fast and furious this evening: Raw Story has an excerpt from tomorrow’s WSJ saying that the investigation may have broadened to include the whole of the White House Iraq Group.Is Fitzgerald moving ever closer to the Niger uranium scammers? We can hope. As Josh Marshall says:
But this WHIG thing is a whole ‘nother level of hurt.Digby connects the dots. Pass the popcorn!This group was the organizational team, the core group behind all the shameless crap that went down in the lead up to the Iraq war — the lies about the cooked up Niger story, everything. If Fitzgerald has lassoed this operation into a criminal conspiracy, the veil of protective secrecy in which the whole operation is still shrouded will be pulled back. Depositions and sworn statements in on-going investigations have a way of doing that. Ask Bill Clinton. Every key person in the White House will be touched by it. And all sorts of ugly tales could spill out.
Here’s an extra helping of schadenfreude, as Jonathan Schwarz oh-so-cruelly interrupts Colin Powell’s attempted image rehabilitation:
Yesterday I quietly and calmly explained that COLIN POWELL IS A GIGANTIC ERUPTING GEYSER OF LIES. Today I thought it might be fun to soberly and carefully describe why POWELL’S REAL NAME IS MR. BULLSHIT GOT-LIES PINOCCHIO.Go, Jonathan! Kick ’em while they’re down! Don’t let ’em get up!