Must. ..Maintain...Composure...

It's looking like Cheney too may be on the hook over the Plame affair, Rove and Libby may be facing indictments, only not directly over the 1982 law on revealing an agent's name.

I propose that every courtesy and gesture of respect that the Republican party afforded to Bill Clinton be extended to the Bush White House in their time of trouble.

Meanwhile, Sunday's articles in the NYT are worth a read, (among other oddities, Miller was visited in jail by John Bolton.) Credit to the paper for critiquing themselves, but you can be forgiven for suspecting that Miller's jail time has little to do with press freedom. Her own article on the situation reads defensively.

And from the Bloomberg article, the hilarious -I mean sobering- prospect of depositions of the president from a civil suit brought by the Wilsons.

In an interview yesterday, Wilson said that once the criminal questions are settled, he and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame's career.

If they do so, the current state of the law makes it likely that the suit will be allowed to proceed -- and Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath -- while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time.