PlameGate

I have been trying to figure out what Special Prosecutor (Persecutor) Patrick Fitzgerald's charter actually is. As I understand it, his actual charter has never been divulged. In the press it was stated that he was to investigate who revealed that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA agent. There seems to be some considerable doubt as to whether or not revealing her as a CIA agent was a crime. Fitzgerald has said that it was not his job to determine if a crime was committed, but rather it was to do an ivestigation. It seems odd to me, a non-lawyer, that there should be millions of dollars spent on an investigation if there was no crime in the first place. It seem to me that he was on a "witch hunt" from the beginning. There was a lot of commentary that it would not be the crime, but the "cover-up" that would result in prosecution. But, how can there be a "cover-up" if there was no crime? Scooter Libby has been indicted for lying to the grand jury based on testimony of reporters who had spoken separately with Libby. One wonders why the testimony of the reporters is any more credible than that of Libby? From news reports it appears that Fitzgerald's investigation was targeted at Karl Rove. How can it be that his charter was to investigate a person, rather than a crime? That's against the law in America I thought.

Regarding Valerie Plame Wilson, Fitzgerald claims he knows who first "outed" her, but he doesn't want to embarrass that person by making an identification. That person is reportedly not in the White House. It appears that Fitzgeald's job was to embarrass the Bush Administration.