Karen Watters Cole, Portland, Oregon

"Personally, I think Patrick Fitzgerald converted some people away from criminal thoughts today, made people believe again in the rule of law, recruited a few new lawyers, and made Americans feel proud about checks and balances and fairness. And I glad once again that young people are getting a real civics lesson."

Helene Whitson, San Francisco, California

"I know I speak for many other Americans in thanking our friends from elsewhere in being kind and patient with us until we can put this nightmare behind us. We have done so much damage in the world."

[Ed: Thus ends two personal communications last night from two of our list members on hearing yesterday's decision of the Grand Jury in Washington to prosecute Libby and to continue to investigate Rove. A lot more will come out of the woodwork, no doubt, in the next few months, whether by legal proceedings or in further work by journalists and historians. Cheney himself might even be investigated in due course and prosecuted on criminal charges. Now that all possible reasons given for invading Iraq have been ventilated and found wanting, we might even discover the real reason for invading Iraq. This, of course, is that Iraq is now potentially the largest and cheapest source of oil in the world, now that the oilfields of Saudi Arabia are in decline.]