More Judy Miller and the Joe Wilson scandal™
Do you guys want to discuss Judy Miller and the Joe Wilson scandal™? Or would you rather take a nap?
The WashPost tells us that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald “has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney’s long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame.”
This contradicts Joe Wilson’s assertion that it was all about him, but it shows the Veep having his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, leak the name of a CIA desk-jockey to enact revenge against the CIA.
Reuters, however, lets us know that Libby didn’t leak the correct information:
According to Miller’s account of a meeting with Libby on July 8, she wrote in her notes that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control, or Winpac, unit, which tracks unconventional arms.
A former intelligence official said Plame did not work at Winpac but for the CIA’s clandestine service. The former official, who is familiar with Plame’s CIA activities, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
If this is true, then Libby did not know that Plame was classified as James Bond in drag, super-secret, licensed-to-kill with an AK-47 when he let the cat out of the bag
So we have Cheney directed Libby to leak Valerie Flame’s [sic] name of a covert op in order to harm the CIA, but it was really about getting revenge on Joe Wilson for a trip he had not yet taken, and Libby didn’t tell anyone that she was a covert op.
I almost feel bad for these folks. Someone give them a decent scandal.
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