Informed Speculation

You know, there’s really no point in me even trying to get further into what the latest Libby defense filing means – after all, we have the illustrious MinuteMan to guide us. More from the great Maguire:

Our quick reaction is this:

(a) Some of the responses to the Bush Connection are over-done – Fitzgerald does not come close to alleging wrong-doing by President Bush.

(b) There are fascinating new bits about Cheney’s involvement, although the negative spaces are also fascinating. This buttresses the notion advanced by Chris Matthews and many others that Fitzgerald’s real target was Dick Cheney. One might infer that the indictment of Libby was simply an attempt to elicit his cooperation, and that, so far at least, it is is a flip that failed.

That’s just the smallest of samplings, so do read the rest…