Reply #4: They are pursuing an All-Or-Nothing strategy

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By closing ranks and circling the wagons, now trashing Joseph Wilson and dismissing the blown cover of a CIA Agent as a trifling matter, they are taking a very big gamble. If Fitzgerald's investigation leads to any indictments against major individuals in the Bush Administration, there are going to be a lot of cockroaches scrambling for their hidey-holes. Bush will be toast and so will the GOP leadership. You would almost wonder if they have a mole on Fitzgerald's legal team.