American Conservative Intelligencer

In a time when America is in the defining war of our era, the last thing we need is for busy body prosecutors to treasonously trump up charges of treason against our war weary leaders. Yet that is exactly the situation we find ourselves at the time of writing.

Without regard to decency or the best efforts of our leaders to save the American people from this insulting affront to our nation's right to defend itself, our friends on the left have initiated a campaign of painting standard political powerplays, for instance, revealing the identity of covert intelligence operatives, as criminal acts. Even more despicable, millions of dollars have been spent on this investigation, with the looming possibility that an over-eager prosecutor might attempt to uncover the trail of unquestionably true WMD intelligence that forced us to realize we had no choice but to go to war. The end result of such an investigation would disillusion many patriotic Americans, a price too large to pay.

By doing so, the left has seriously impeded the ability of a war-time president and his administration to properly select what, when, and how the mainstream media and ultimately, their cohorting terrorists at large, learn about the inner workings of the U.S. war machine. This is unacceptable and must be countered by every honest, hardworking American.

The case can easily be made clearly showing how, if Plame's name was not leaked to patriotic journalists, the case for war would have been doubted, questioned and possibly rejected by American citizens. Where would that leave us? With no war, and thus, a looming nuclear charged Iraq. This adds up to millions dead, a far greater number than the few dozen thousands caused by the freeing of Iraq.

Yet in this post-Clintonian era, where innocent political maneuvering is criminalized, while lies concerning known incidents of sexual assault in the Oval office are greeted by the mainstream media high fiving each other in a lockerroom-esque fashion, few citizens are standing up for the right and proper view held by the administration. Where are the hundreds of thousands of righteous protestors now, when their leaders need them? Instead, we have a federally funded prosecutor who just might decide to prosecute a few men because they said they were innocent. That's right, Patrick Fitzgerald, who is paid by the federal government, might indict federal leaders simply because they pled thier innocence.

In the end, honest citizens must stand up and demand special prosecutor Fitzgerald back off from his witch hunt, return to Chicago, and try actual criminals, preferably those in the under-privileged areas. A politically charged set of indictments will only serve to instill the citizenry with the notion that our leaders are callous manipulators, which only hurts America.