Protecting The Lies

Think Progress has a great rundown of the 23 Bush administration officials involved in the Plame leak investigation. This rundown includes detailed information on their roles in the saga, with numerous quotes and relevant links. A great primer for the Plame newbies out there.

The 23 are: Karl Rove, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, Andrew Card, Alberto Gonzales, Mary Matalin, Ari Fleischer, Susan Ralston, Israel Hernandez, John Hannah, Scott McClellan, Dan Bartlett, Claire Buchan, Catherine Martin, Jennifer Millerwise, Jim Wilkinson, Colin Powell, Karen Hughes, Adam Levine, Bob Joseph, Vice President Dick Cheney, and President George W. Bush

Highly recommended read.

And could one of these 23 be now cooperating with Fitzgerald's case? The plot thickens.

Also- Great editorial by Frank Rich (this, Judy, is good journalism):
It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby

...The attack on Mr. Wilson, by contrast, has left them and the Cheney-Libby tag team vulnerable because it's about something far bigger: protecting the lies that took the country into what the Reagan administration National Security Agency director, Lt. Gen. William Odom, recently called "the greatest strategic disaster in United States history."

Whether or not Mr. Fitzgerald uncovers an indictable crime, there is once again a victim, but that victim is not Mr. or Mrs. Wilson; it's the nation. It is surely a joke of history that even as the White House sells this weekend's constitutional referendum as yet another "victory" for democracy in Iraq, we still don't know the whole story of how our own democracy was hijacked on the way to war.

Certainly poignant given what Condi revealed on Sunday.