No Outrage Left To Give

The Scooter Libby thing will eat up all the oxygen, but it's also important to note that Karl Rove, who recently revealed documents have shown was perilously close to getting indicted for perjury his own damn self, was given a renewal on his security clearance, despite being named as the confirming source to Robert Novak in the outing of Valerie Plame, talking to Matt Cooper about the same, etc., etc.

And even worse, A.Q. Khan, the man responsible for delivering nuclear secrets to rogue states all over the world, a man who was arguably the greatest threat to global security in the 21st century, is also a free man.

So much for punishing an infamous nuclear proliferator.

Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, who ran a global network of nuclear-weapons technology -- catering to such clients as Libya, Iran and North Korea --was placed under house arrest by strongman Pervez Musharraf in 2004 under pressure from the Bush administration. House arrest was a compromise: Musharraf feared imprisoning Khan, a national hero, due not only to popular outrage but fear that Khan might disclose collaborators in Musharraf's government. Now, however, the AP reports that Khan is "virtually a free citizen," and has been for "several months," according to Pakistani officials.

Not to mention the fact that today is the bring 'em on, and just as disgraceful a statement was released on the same day.

I'm spent.

But tomorrow I will write about how that WaPo series on Fourthbranch presaged all of this.