The Colin Powell Memo

Michael Tomasky, editor of the American Prospect, posted a must-read column on the noose tightening around the highest officials of the Bush administration, including possibly the President himself. Published reports and commentary over the weekend suggest the President may have seen a memo given former Secretary of State Colin Powell that mentioned CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name ended up in a Robert Novak column a week later. That memo is now a key piece of evidence in the hands of special prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald, who is investigating the administration's leaks of Plame's name.

Tomasky likens the chain of events to the scenario in The Constant Gardner, the new film of the John LeCarre novel where drug company officials don't actually order an assassination, but by the time their displeasure gets translated down the line, the nosey inquisitors into the firm's unethical practices are dead on a rural road. All I can add is, see the movie, read his column.