The American Prospect
by Greg Sargent

11/02/05

When Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictment of Scooter Libby, he also gave dispiriting news to those hoping the full account of the Plame scandal would eventually be revealed. Not only did he not plan to release a report, he said, he could not release one -- meaning he'd likely close up shop without revealing much of what he knows about the ways that All the Vice President's Men (and the veep himself, and Karl Rove) sought to discredit a leading war critic. But a close reading of the Code of Federal Regulations suggests that there's another way the truth could come out -- even information outside the 'four corners of the indictment,' to which Fitzgerald claimed to be bound. Even if Fitzgerald can't reveal those details, someone else perhaps can: the attorney general...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp