Dean's charges are impassioned and more severe than many of Bush's most persistent critics. But those charges are realized only after careful reasoning and steady logic by a man who knows his way around scandal and corruption.

As a former White House counsel, John Dean (that's JOHN Dean not HOWARD Dean) knows what he's talking about on every level of this. The real question will be, what happens in 2008 when someone not named W goes to the White House and tells their new AG to get the SoB.

Assuming of course they don't stage a Reichstag fire between now and then.