What's the Real Story on Karl Rove?

From CounterPunch:

I've still been wondering what is in those eight blank pages. In the week that elapsed since O'Donnell focused on them, there had been no other effort that I saw in the press to even speculate on "the gravity" supposedly therein. Last night, at least, I caught the Lou Dobbs show on CNN where he interviewed John Dean, the man largely responsible for doing in his boss, Richard Nixon, when he served as White House counsel during the Watergate period. Here was the exchange that interested me, when Dobbs commented on Judith Miller being in jail when there is still no evidence of a crime being committed:

DEAN: No question. It`s a travesty that she`s in jail at this point and she`s protecting some source, who is not in jail or who is not even fessing up to relieve her of that responsibility. But you know, there are a lot of potentials here that -- how this may unwind and the reason I think the fact that there`s more to happen, is that when I read the opinion of Judge Hogan in the contempt proceeding, and I read the court of appeals decision of Judge Tatel...

DOBBS: Judge Hogan, the judge who sentenced Judith Miller for contempt.

DEAN: Correct. And Judge Tatel was the -- on the Appellate Court that reviewed that decision before it went to the Supreme Court and both of them have looked at the sealed record. And in that record, which they redacted in their opinion, but in their look at it, they said, this case is not where it started, it has made a dramatic turn, and this information that is now being requested by this special counsel, Fitzgerald, is needed. And therefore, they could see no basis to get around the problem of holding her in contempt or Cooper, if he wasn`t willing to testify. So, something`s happened in this case, Lou, that we don`t know and that`s why I think it may be -- well, it may be close to being over, we -- the fat lady hasn`t gotten near the stage yet.

Click here for the rest.

The "eight blank pages" to which the essay refers are part of the evidence that convinced judges that it's a good idea to keep the New York Times' Judith Miller in jail even though everybody already knows that Karl Rove was the man behind the leak. The CNN Dobbs and Dean exchange strongly suggests that much more may be going on here than simply the outing of a CIA agent. Of course, we already know that much more is going on here: Bush and company lied in order to convince America to invade a defenseless but oil-rich nation--I wonder if Fitzgerald inadvertantly pulled some of the threads that keep this whole tapestry of mendacity together. Obviously, I'm engaging in wishful thinking, but something seems to be going on, and there's a lot out there that we don't know about how the White House pulled off the Iraq invasion. It seems to me that an open-ended investigation like the one Fitzgerald is now conducting is bound to bump into some very inconvenient facts. I guess we'll see what happens.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$