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So, a private citizen writes a memo to his friends in government and The Speaker's aides make a courtesy call to speak with him about it. Why do you inflate this into something rivaling Kennan's article on "Containment"? If you've ever worked in Washington, you know these vanity memos from old timers who want back in the game are a dime a dozen. Just like Dennis Kucinich's virtually unsupported almost daily call for Bush-Cheney impeachments, this memo has triggered no procedural mechanisms - most likely because everyone has heard it all before and the "suggestion" of a hearing doesn't establish cause for said hearing. This fails to provide any meat for the BBQ. Even in the Pelosi-world of wild, scatter-gun rhetoric, you can't "go to court" without evidence. That evidence may very well be in hand in the future, but a three page article on a memo that says what millions of people have said already in one way, shape or form? Really? Call us back when you've got something new. I'll bet this former Church Committee member has written a lot of memos.
