"Anonymous Liberal", a lawyer, makes a good point. The letter Ron Suskind cites in his new book is potentially very important. But the second half of it -- which hasn't got much publicity so far -- is a huge deal if it does indeed come from the White House. I'm no longer surprised (was I ever?) to find definitive evidence of White House involvement in any skullduggery. But as the evidence begins to pile up, linking (say) Cheney to false allegations of Niger "yellowcake" (see also Val and Joe) would be a great qualification for the "high crimes and misdemeanors" list. It comes down to who forged what, what fingerprints are on the "creamy" stationery.
Andrew Sullivan remarks that the newly discovered White House letter (assuming authenticity, of course) is "an indication that the bad faith many suspect was behind the Iraq invasion was real." That could seem curiously tepid to many of us who have long been convinced about White House bad faith. Anything less than bad faith seems naive by now, by the end of the second term of the Bush/Cheney gig.
