In his review of the episode, the writer gets so carried away with his attempt to make it look like Cheney was behind the leak -- "In the FBI's interview, Cheney's memory of key events appeared hazy" or "Cheney's occasional denials that he talked about Plame to various people at the White House are among the few things in the lengthy interview with the FBI that Cheney appeared certain about" -- that he forgets the single most important piece of information about the case. What is it?
The identity of the leaker: Richard Armitage.
It's amazing. The press is generally so left-wing that even though they had to report on the facts briefly when the news came out that the anti-Iraq War side leaked Plame's identity (and she was no longer a field agent so it violated no laws anyway), the fact did not displace their built-in hatred of Cheney and their conviction that the Bush administration was punishing a poor dissenter trying to save us from lies and war with Iraq.
I was so tired of this trait of the anti-war Left that I was not going to blog on it after I read it this morning. Hayes reminds of what I wrote here--the Left relies on failures to point out their spin of history to rewrite it. So thank you Hayes, for reminding me that it is dangerous to let their spin go unchallenged.
So let's review, shall we?
Armitage did the leaking and an innocent man was convicted as a proxy for a Cheney frog-march from his office.
Wilson's public conclusion about Iraq's Niger outreach was nonsense (and did I mention that Armitage did the leaking?)
And in light of Wilson's truly bad espionage efforts, the real question of the whole affaire is why was the buffoon Wilson sent on such an important mission? The man is our very own village idiot.
That question is still not answered. But that's just because all of Wilson's neighbors work for our press corps. Professional courtesy, don't you know.
