Now Senate Democrats are wondering whether John Bolton lied when he vowed that he was not interviewed by the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame matter.

Let’s consider the group of people now of interest in the CIA agent’s outing: John Bolton, Ari Fleischer, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby…and let’s not forget Bob Novak, the journalist who started it all.

Strikes me that, as you might expect from a nasty piece of work, this is a nasty group of people. It says something about President Bush that, although he can come across as genial and likeable, he surrounds himself with a bunch of hitmen, and their court scribe, Bob Novak….