I'm joking... I think.

What bothers me the most about this affair is that the entire story is constructed by the news media using anonymous sources. In the blogosphere, we insist on links, and sources, so that we can "fact check your ass". We have done that on many occasions and revealed factual and philosophical errors, and plagiarism, among other "crimes of fact". Here we have an allegation that may or may not be a crime, but with no government official on the record providing any facts. We have Bob Novak's word for the original story, and wronged husband Wilson's complaint about it, and that is all. If this were a story originating in the Internet, it would have died a long time ago for lack of sourcing. Why is it that the news media can do this, over and over with many stories, and not be called on it? It's not news if it cannot be fact checked, is it?

Plame has to have been a covert intelligence officer whose name is classified for there to have been a crime. Several places have quotes that aledge that she is an analyst, which would make the disclosure not criminal. In any event, we need to know her position at the CIA at the time, as well as who made the original statements to Novak (and if you read him carefully, he does not say White House officials). Indeed, if you read him, he states that the CIA itself confirmed her employment there.

Not only do we have those infamous "anonymous sources" but we keep hearing the motivation was revenge....

We have not even established what was said or who said it, pinning it on revenge is yet another leap.

There is a stunning lack of facts here. I don't know how it will turn out, but I find it hysterical that the delusional left have already said there will be convictions over this because "there is too much blood in the water."

All we KNOW for now is that the WaPo has hyped a story based on no hard facts. If I were a lefty I'd be careful before I started jumping for glee.

We don't know if this is a scandal or a news cycle. Declaring victory just makes people look foolish.

Paul

Wilson backtracked Monday, saying he had not meant to imply that Rove "was the source or the authorizer, just that I thought that it came from the White House, and Karl Rove was the personification of the White House political operation."

So there's nothing behind this so far except for some finger pointing by the Left trying to make something out of nothing and they are already backtracking.

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