Billmon: Silent Running

When Scotty McClellen was doing his best Ron Zeigler imitation today, he kept insisting he couldn't answer any questions about Rove -- or anything else connected to the outing of Valarie Plame -- because the prosecutors had "expressed a preference" that he not comment on an on-going investigation.

Now naturally this didn't go over too well with the press pack, which was looking forward to taking a good hard piss all over some of his previous statements on the subject -- remarks dating from the days when McClellan was much more inclined to wax eloquent on the high ethical standards of Karl Rove and the "ridiculousness" of the charges against him.