Fitzgerald's Case Comes Crashing Down

Just One Minute (linked above) wants to know if Patrick Fitzgerald will now admit he was wrong in light of today's revelations from Bob Woodward.

Editor and Publisher reports that Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus suspected Woodward was involved with the Plame case but did not pursue it because Woodward asked Pincus to "keep him out of the reporting." Surely that must violate ethical guidelines of some sort if Pincus was aware that Woodward might have knowledge pertinent to a grand jury criminal investigation?

Woodward apologized to the Washington Post today, saying he had kept quiet because he didn't want to be subpoenaed. He claims this was to protect his source, but the reality is that Mr. Woodward looks rather cowardly having kept quiet for the last couple years, knowing the information he had might have exonerated Scooter Libby.

Attorney Joseph Di Genova -- who along with his wife, Victoria Toensing, has been quite incensed about Fitzgerald's misuse of the covert agent protection law Toensing authored -- said today on Fox News Channel that under ethical guidelines Fitzgerald must dismiss Libby's indictment because of reasonable doubt.