“Ooh.  Are those chocolate macaroons…?”

Tom Maguire, Jeralyn Merritt, and Arianna Huffington (among others) have done yeoman’s work covering the Plamegate story in all its intricate prosecutorial, grand jury, and media permutations, and soon—thankfully—Patrick Fitzgerald should let us all know what provisional conclusions his long investigation has yielded.  But in advance of that, let’s not forget the chain of events that brought us to this point—beginning with an October 15, 2001 CIA foreign government service

Last evening I noted that Hugh Hewitt, in his rebuttal to George Will’s critique of the Miers nomination, raised several serious questions aimed at those of us who’ve expressed particular concern over the nominee’s purported political positions on to affirmative action, quotas, and proportional representation—positions that, in my case, I’ve been arguing are a better political “litmus test” for discerning her likely judicial philosophy (in lieu of a judicial track