I can’t join in the speclation frenzy about Rove’s not being indicted. And it’s hard to focus much on Jason Leopold or other bloggers’ erroneous speculations, my own included. What came to mind was one of the bumps along the way that I found myself writing about in the Comments on another blog. I wrote:
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Aristotle’s Tragedy says that a really good drama should hinge on a flaw that has been apparent from the start of the play finally bringing the character to a tragic end. He warns against using a Deus ex Machina, some outside unknown force that jumps out of the sky to resolve the plot. The Rove saga certainly presents us with a character who is flawed, a man who omitted his conversation with Matt Cooper in his testimony. But enter stage left a true Deus ex Machina, Viveca Novak, who alerted his lawyer, Robert Luskin, to the fact that the large hole in his story was known, and gave them time to scramble and fill in the gap with the Hadley email. Without her unnecessary input, the omission might have remained, and Fitzgerald would have had his lie.
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Who ever knows if such small things matter? It sure felt like a really big glitch when it happened. I guess such retrospective musing is going to be part of coming to accept this very disappointing outcome…
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