by Matt Barr

Plame goes all Ron Goldman on Cheney

Insofar as I'm pretty sure the lawsuit isn't so much about justice and redress and recompense and etc. as it is about giving the administration the finger, it probably doesn't matter, but there's a fairly profund difference between suing after a criminal acquittal and suing after the prosecutor fails to so much as indict. The standard for acquittal in criminal court is proof beyond a reasonable doubt; you can be guilty by a preponderance of the evidence, which rings your bell as a civil plaintiff, without going to jail. We all learned this from O.J. But the standard for indicting somebody for something is generally my elbow only bends one way, which is to say about the only way not ot get indicted is to be so not guilty as to be laughed at for excessive piety and goodwill toward your fellow man. I can't see this working out well in court.

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