who did cookie really call?

From ThinkProgress:

Last week, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced that he will hold a hearing after Thanksgiving recess to investigate discrepancies between statements on Blackwater by State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard and those of his brother. Howard Krongard’s lawyer has now written to Waxman and asked him to cancel the hearing. “There is no legitimate purpose to be gained by publicly pitting two brothers against each other,” Barbara Van Gelder wrote.

This is clearly just an early effort by Krongard's lawyer to put a spin of irrelevency on Waxman's investigation. If there is a discrepency where two individuals of such close ties are seen as possibly coordinating activities between private and public institutions for personal gain, there's simply no way it should be left uninvestigated.

Of course, assuming Waxman does the work of the people and invetsigates these clowns, we can expect that they're going to plead to plausible deniability. I'm willing to bet that if we looked into Howard "Cookie" Krongard's phone records, we'd find out that the call he made during a break in a congressional hearing was not to his brother, it was to his lawyer, and he was seeking pre-emptive advice on how to avoid go to prison.