Told'ja

Actually, my professor told you that the Libby verdict was immaterial. What matters is the trial record. Now via Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake we have Syd Schanberg (a guy who knows a thing or two about massive government cockups) writing in the NY Observer:

Day by day, witness by witness, exhibit by exhibit, Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the trial of Dick Cheney’s man, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, is accomplishing what no one else in Washington has been able to: He has impeached the Presidency of George W. Bush.

Of course, it’s an unofficial impeachment, but it will also, through its documentation, be inerasable. The trial record—testimony, exhibits, the lot—will be there, in one place, for investigators, scholars, reporters and Congress to pore over. It goes far beyond the charges against Mr. Libby. It is, instead, a road map to the abuses of power that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney and their shadow government of neoconservatives have committed as the neocons carried out what they had been planning for years: an invasion of Iraq—and other military excursions—for the purpose of expanding American dominion

Go read the rest. And then, when the verdict is in, call your congressperson. Tell them that Fitz laid the groundwork. And then them if they have the balls to run with the ball.

Tip: Tigre.