Wow, someone in the VP's office that few people had ever heard of until recently is indicted and this is supposed to be "the end" of it all for Bush.
Lost in the Left's glee are a few interesting points:
1) Fitzgerald appears to be trying to run the "Martha Stewart" playbook against Libby. Note that he wasn't charged with "outting" Plame. No one has, after all of the Grand Jury testimony heard. Obviously there isn't enough evidence for Fitzgerald to get an indictment for someone deliberately disclosing the name of an undercover operative. So all that comes out of the two years of effort are several "side" charges against one person. Charges none the less, but not nearly as damning as what many had hoped for. Joe Wilson isn't going to be able to stand in front of microphones today, waving a copy of the indictment, and say it proves his assertions that the Whitehouse knowingly "outted" his wife as a "payback" against him. In fact, Fitzgerald stated today "Were not saying that Libby knowingly outted a covert agent."
2) The "Big One" appears to have gotten away. MoveOn's, et al, visions of Rove doing a "perp walk" look pretty far gone. Oh, I know, "he's been told it isn't over for him." But the Grand Jury has been dismissed and unless some new bombshell drops out of the air, I have a hard time seeing Fitzgerald going "Grand Jury shopping" like Delay's prosecutor. It doesn't seem to be his style.
3) On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say this rates a "3" at worst. I doubt it will scar Bush any more than Epsy's or Cisneros' (both Cabinet officials and not staffers) indictments did to Bush's predecessor. You all remember that, right?
4) Libby did the right thing and resigned.
