It's a conflict for the NYT to report on issues connected with the Fitzgerald Grand jury, WMD, and the Downing Street Memo. Hiring Kristol doesn't help. He was on the list of favorite DoD commentators 5392
The WMD-Libby-Downing Street Memo issues are in the middle of the DoD Military Analyst maze.
* Narrow Denial Fails To Exclude All Communication To Allegedly Mislead Congress and Public 
Feith 21-times says "never," with careful parsing:

"Nor did the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ever approve or adopt any of the draft opinions or conclusions in any of the resulting documents as OUSD(P) positions, views or conclusions."

Feith wants to see anything we do and clear it first, 6513

* DoD Emails Show Vice President's Staff On DoD Distribution List

Libby's name is on the list DoD used to send information. The list was derived from Rumsfelds "snowflakes":

We have taken a bunch - maybe a dozen - snowflakes recently instructing us to add this person or that person and to send things to "the group". 7772

* Downing Street Memo

7524 shows some of the US government discussion in response to the London Times disclosure of one of the Downing Street Memos.

Libby was convicted of perjury before the Fitzgerald Grand Jury. He lied for a reason. After the DOD IG issued their report on the Iraq WMD, Senator Levin claimed the findings were a "devastating condemnation of the activities."

The DoD Emails paint no different picture. There's little to suggest Congress is seriously acting on what they've described as "devastating." Fortunately, Fitzgerald reminded the military analysts -- "reporters" with the NYT -- that they are not immune to a grand jury subpoena.

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There has been insufficient public discussion of the role the Office of Vice President played in the DoD Military Analyst program. Libby's name is on the contact list. Some information was sent to him. Presumably he reeieved this information, forwarded it to thers including Addington and the Vice President.

Doug Feith is a lawyer. It defies reason to believe Libby, as a Lawyer, would not have worked with Feith on these DoD-military analyst issues.

Feith responded forcefully to the DOD IG reports. His denial was incomplete, and the DOD emails show Feith was doing what he would have us believe he wasn't: Coordinating, reviewing and approving information provided to the public. Feith's denial should not sit well with anyone. He's openly asserted he didn't openly, officially coordinate through his office information provided through the military analysts to the Congress and public.

It is absurd for anyone to believe the NYT is going to aggressively look at the very issues which prompted the Court to jail Judith Miller: Refusal to disclose details related to the communication between the US government, reporters, and other "experts"

The President, Congress, and COurts have exhausted reasonable patience. The public should discuss a new system of oversight that will prevent this reckless abuse of power, deception, and betrayal of American values.

We don't need to hear more feigned shock from Congress. They're not surprised. They're part of the problem. The media hasn't aggressively reported the President's meetings with the military analysts. That would muddy their already soiled reputation.

We know what happened: The US government lied to the American people, engaged in propaganda, mobilized for an illegal war, and have left us with a pile of debt. That's not a victory.

This US government needs to be lawfully punished. After Watergate, FISA was designed to constrain power. The US government ignored FISA. The public must discuss what will ensure this abuse of power does not occur. Let's discuss a new system of oversight that will ensure there are prosecutions, timely investigations, and the US government is stripped of power it abuses. Our legacy must be one that stands on a solution, not capituatlation. We must stand up where the media lies down.

The US Attorneys are blocked or refuse to act. The States refuse to act. Congress refuses to act. The media refuses to report. The list of people interested in a solution appears shorter: TPM readers, underground bloggers, and staff counsel on some of the committees.

It's time to pick up where the Fitzgerald Grand Jury left off. We need to look at the information in the DoD emails in the context of the Libby-WMD ruse. Someone lied to the Grand Jury for a reason. The question is who in the media and Congress knows how the Vice President deceived the public with false information, and who is relying on which non-sense to justify inaction.

The solution isn't to wait for Congress, the media, the grand jury, or the US government. The way forward is to use these revelations to ask the simple question: Why not restructure the US government, strip it of power, and assign impeachment authority to the States. The threat of jail time or a conviction for war crimes is lost on this crew. Our job must be one that denies them the option to ignore the law. The way forward is to create a competing branch of government who sole job is to do what the Congress and President refuse to do: Investigate and prosecute.

This crew has hidden evidence. They've not done their jobs. That is not an answer. The DoD emails show us these deceptions have not solve this problem. It merely justifies the public debate: What is a solution.