Imagine the burden of proof hanging over a Special Counsel's head. Reading Billmon's brief post about the "little pieces" of a case, I was thinking about that experience and about the enormous job Patrick Fitzgerald has to present a fail-safe case if he decides to issue indictments. Every blogger, everyone associated with mainstream media from restroom attendant to national editor, every Republican staffie on the Hill, and every angry Bushie will be looking for the tiniest pin-prick of a hole in Fitzgerald's rationale. And if Fitzgerald issues a summary report rather than indicting, the same reaction will come from all the rest of us.
And if he does indict, the question is, what next? What are the chances that any case will hold up through the court system?
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