Now it is time to find out why.
Earlier today, I. Lewis Libby paid his $250,000 fine. With the payment of the fine and the commutation of imprisonment, the case is complete. There is nothing left to appeal, and the case is over.
In his commutation decision, Bush left a $250,000 fine. Libby paid the fine on Thursday.
Libby's friends and supporters have raised more than $5 million to cover legal fees and were continuing to raise money but Libby paid the fine himself, according to someone close to the fund who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the account are private. The cashiers check filed with the court was issued in Libby's name.
--Yahoo News
Amazing that they were sharp enough to take this tack. The effort is to get this case off the front page as quickly as possible.
Just how much are they trying to hide?
Impeachment buffs forget the long investigative run up before articles of impeachment were brought. The hard work was all the spade work that was done by Congressional committees, by prosecutors and by underlings rolling over on those above them in the food chain.
It is much too early, unfortunately to move to impeachment. The work to do now is to get at just what is causing that awful smell emanating from the White House--the facts, Ma'm, just the facts.