AND NOW WE KINOW

Robert Novak, who has been released by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, is now telling his side of the Wilson-Plame story. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15988 His account, which appears online at Human Events and in print in the Washington Post, http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15988 bears out his contention all along, namely that there was no there, there. Although he still does not divulge his primary source, that person who, in a long interview mentioned that Joe Wilson’s wife was instrumental in getting him the investigative gig, he writes that he got her name from a public source, Who’s Who in America. Joe Wilson paid to have his name and that of his wife listed in this publication. This is something else that has been known all along. And, though Novak names Carl Rove as a corroborating source as well as the public affairs person at the CIA at the time, Scooter Libby does not seem to be involved in the original affair at all, yet he’s the only one going to trial. Go figure.
About a week after Novak’s column appeared in September 2003, the Washington Post publisher took the entire editorial page to explain to his reader that the Post does not print classified material. Then the Post joined the New York Times and other Bush hating publications demanding a special prosecutor to investigate who leaked a CIA spy’s name-never mind that she was not. This is called having your cake and eating it too, or maybe just plain lying. But, the cake came back to bite when a precedent was set for jailing journalists in order to pursue a federal investigation. In the meantime, the Chris Matthews of the world, smelling blood and desperate to “get” George Bush, spittingly ratted on about the affair, sure it would get them renown as the Woodward of their time.
Millions of dollars have been and will continue to be spent on this matter and for what? The Post, along with other news sources, denied outing secret material but they have continued to do so with impunity. And then, when they are questioned, they whine. Valerie Plame is of no consequence to anyone except her husband, the out of work diplomat. After all she did provide him with a format for a book that earned them both millions of dollars. On the other hand, the NSA and money tracking operations leaks obviously have had dire consequences for us all.
Clarice Feldman writing for the American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5664 asks several question. The most important is, if Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the beginning who the sources were, why was Scooter Libby called to testify in the first place?
One has to wonder how far the bush-haters will go to “get” their man. Are they content to have the nation go down in flames to prove themselves correct in the belief that President Hillary will set it all right in 08? In that event, God help us all.