I appreciate and am humbled by Mark’s comments. Mark is too polite to mention it, but there is surely reason to think I am a special pleader for Pat Fitzgerald — not that he needs one. I hope I am not, and I am trying to remain mindful of my biases. (On the contrary, I’ve never thought there was any reason to think Mark was a special pleader for Scooter Libby, and plainly there is not.) All we can do is the best we can, and hope that — regardless of our disagreements, or perhaps because of them — we are contributing something useful to the public’s consideration of an important issue.