Cohen and diGenova, Solicitors at Prostitution

Although at least 78 other bloggers have taken well-deserved swipes at faux-liberal Richard Cohen for this abomination. I want to focus on one aspect of Cohen's apology for Republican criminal misconduct. Cohen writes:

I have no idea what Fitzgerald will do. My own diligent efforts to find out anything have come to naught. Fitzgerald's non-speaking spokesman would not even tell me if his boss is authorized to issue a report, as several members of Congress are now demanding -- although Joseph E. diGenova, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, tells me that only a possibly unprecedented court order would permit it.

Cohen quotes Short Joey diGs without disclosing that the runtish Republican's wife, Victoria Toerag, has been acting as a dishonest apologist for the Administration on Traitorgate. Cohen couldn't find a lawyer without longstanding ties to the G.O.P.; he had to quote the cigar-chomping Republican hack? What, was Mark Levin away from his desk when you speeddialed him, Dickie?

To top it off, Cohen's column is subliterate. Does "a possibly unprecedented court order" mean that Joey DiGs does not know whether such a court order would be unprecedented -- i.e., "It's possible such an order would be unprecedented, but I have no idea." Either an order is unprecedented or it's not. Cohen's lack of respect for the language is exceeded only by his lack of respect for the law.