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[EarlG]

which make me think that this all ultimately boils down to whether it was total incompetence or extreme hubris. Either way it looks like they're in deep trouble.

1) Total incompetence: they didn't find out Plame was covert until after they outed her, then realized they had committed a crime which they tried to cover it up thus committing more crimes.

2) Extreme hubris: they knew full well she was covert beforehand and outed her anyway, because they thought they could do whatever they hell they wanted. When the prosecutor started sniffing around, they thought they could cover it up easily. Whoops.

Hmm... total incompetence or extreme hubris. Extreme hubris or total incompetence...

You just never know with this administration :)