This may be the case where the cover-up actually isn't worse than the crime

Why did we go to war in Iraq? Incredibly, there doesn't seem to be a clear reason -- or, at least a justifiable one. There were no WMDs, no links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, and precious little justificatory intelligence, but the case was made. (This case must also be made: Saddam led a horrible and murderous regime marked by his own brand of terror.) There is still so much more to be uncovered about who said and did what in the Plame leak case, and why -- but as Frank Rich points out, it is looking more and more like the crux of the matter is the war in Iraq and our reasons -- real and fabricated -- for going in. Rich points a finger at the White House Iraq Group as massive warmongering hawks; Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports that Cheney, Libby, Rummy and co. were up to their elbows in raw intel looking for info to buttress their case: "Together, the group largely despised the on-the-one-hand/on-the-other analyses handed up by the intelligence bureaucracy. Instead, they went in search of intel that helped advance their case for war." Joseph Wilson threw a wrench into that one, and behold, the leak was on.

Fitzgerald brings it in under a week, and he's got the website to prove it. What was that about Cheney going down again? Oh, right.