What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Every time I read that Armitage held back on being the source of the Valerie Plame information Robert Novak used, I see a sentence or two about how Fitzgerald instructed Armitage to keep quiet about that fact. This is infuriating! Why would the special prosecutor do that, except to keep his fishing expedition open? Why would he instruct Armitage not to say anything in public when others were being subpoenaed? Why would he not have Armitage clear up the allegations in the press about Bush administration officials alleged complicity in the revelations? Fitzgerald owes the American public an answer for his, to me, inappropriate or even illegal activity. He owes every tax payer an explanation about why he took so long, spent so much money, and wasted so many government employees’ time. When will the main stream media jump on that issue?

Thanks to Flopping Aces for the latest update on this stinking scandal.

Israel Hasbara Committee has a post up (h/t Michele Malkin) that makes me think of Bill Clinton over the past week.

It seems the French media company, France 2, has decided they have to defend their reputation. they’ve taken three critics of their reporting to court for defamation. The defamation occurred when these three questioned the veracity of footage allegedly showing Israeli soldiers killing a young palestinian boy.

The media crying slander based on a law most likely designed to protect the public from defamation by the media?! Now that’s justice with a unique French twist.

Now  that’s a trick Bill Clinton would admire. Not defending one’s work by looking at the facts, but calling slander and filing a lawsuit to shut one’s critics up.

In the Washington Times Metro section, the article, Cardin leads in Maryland’s Senate race - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper contained this fascinating quote. First the context paragraph:

Many voters in Montgomery County and in Baltimore were delayed — and even turned away — because some election officials did not show up on time to open polls and others forgot to provide voter-access cards for the electronic voting machines that were used statewide for the first time yesterday.

Now the interesting comment:

"This might not be over tonight," said a state Democratic Party official who asked not to be named. "It seems like whenever voters can’t vote, the election is affected."

That would usually be expected…