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I read with approval until I got to your attack points and realized this will probably degenerate into a "back atcha" set of counterinsults--instead of a real response from Shooter. Hope I'm wrong. -- LindaAnne
Sadly you'll find that quite a few commentors here feel the need to be verbally abusive. It's the sort of thing commonly found when conventional wisdom is challenged and found wanting.
As for his questions I find it odd that for years he and the peanut gallery here have declared Bush and all criminals. The calls for investigation echo round the room on a daily basis, with "rule of law" pontifically intoned at every opportunity. Yet when someone on their "team" is subject to the terms they demand, foul is protested. It's garden variety hypocrisy.
There are more than a few reasons to believe Bush followed the rule of law, by virtue of his powers listed in the Constitution. In order to pursue this, the Supreme Court would be involved, Congress investigated, all our intelligence apparatus exposed, and would completely overshadow Obama for years to come. But it never ceases to amaze me what the people here will tear down, for their pound of flesh.
Moreover, at the end of all that, it may turn out like the two year investigation into the Plame leakages, where noone was indicted for the leaks, including the actual perps, who were known to Fitzgerald even before the investigation began.
Certainly Tamm is entitled to presumption of innocence, just like Bush and Blago. But Tamm knew exactly what he was doing and what he was in for.
Meanwhile in the Times desire to wound Bush, legitimate programs like the Swift banking affair were exposed making the tracing of funds impossible. Quite frankly, it's my opinion that adolescent desires for revenge and retribution are at work here, for slights real and imagined going all the way back to the 7-2 Supreme Court decision in 2000. There is no nobility here.
