Fitzgerald’s Day

THE two-year criminal investigation into the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee ended with a whimper rather than the bang so obsessively sought by the Bush administration’s critics. Much remains unknown. Yet special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of a single administration official, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff, illustrates sharply the chasm between law and politics – between the firmament of provable facts that envelopes the prosecutor’s world and the wild exaggerations for which partisans are known.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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Fitzgerald’s Day

THE two-year criminal investigation into the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee ended with a whimper rather than the bang so obsessively sought by the Bush administration’s critics. Much remains unknown. Yet special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of a single administration official, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff, illustrates sharply the chasm between law and politics – between the firmament of provable facts that envelopes the prosecutor’s world and the wild exaggerations for which partisans are known.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.