Plame Out

Plame affair commentary: Why and How Joe Wilson Outed Valerie Plame. Richard Armitage first revealed Valerie Plame's identity to reporter Bob Woodward in June 2003, and special prosecutor Fitzgerald knew this by the end of 2003.

Yet the media conveniently ignores this central fact when reporting on the Libby case. In the Libby case, two jurors that convicted Libby want him pardoned:

Asked about the possibility of a pardon, juror Ann Redington said, "I would like him to get one," and added, "I don't want him to go to jail."

Valerie Plame dissembled to Congress when she said "she played no part in deciding to send her husband" on the Niger fact-finding trip, despite memos and testimony that show that Valerie Plame recommended her husband for the trip.

Six reasons the scandal is a farce.
A key underlying scandal is left untouched - the CIA's continued poor track record then and now on intelligence: "the CIA hadn't a clue".