February 01, 2007
Puzzle solved?
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Why didn't Patrick Fitzgerald indict anyone for the substantive crime of revealing the identity of a CIA NOC?
Perhaps because he discovered that the revelation was done on the orders of the President, who (at least arguably) can't be indicted by a Federal prosecutor. Anyone down the chain (Libby, Fleischer, Rove) would have had a good defense that he or she was acting in good faith to carry out a Presidential order.
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