Rick Moran at The American Thinker: For indeed, most have given up trying to alter the narrative, soon to be immortalized in film as the portrayal of an evil administration, hell bent on going to war, which tried to stifle and smear the heroic Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to hide their nefarious plans. The narrative is tailor made for Hollywood. The truth, as Mr. Novak points out in this article

Tom Maguire has a great post up about La Plame’s pension files and the light they might shed on her “covert” status with respect to the legal definition under IIPA. One key issue from the statutory definition of “covert agent” is whether Ms. Plame met the requirement for service abroad.  From Mr. Taranto: Left unanswered is the question of when Plame has her last overseas assignment; if it was before

Last night, as you’re probably aware by now, one of the Libby jurors, appearing on Hardball, called on President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby: “I would like him to get” a pardon from Bush, Redington said. “It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.” At

From ABC News: The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of revealing

From Newsbusters: It’s certainly not often that a conservative can say this, but today’s editorial in the Washington Post entitled “A Good Leak” represents a bold and almost unprecedented demonstration of support for President George W. Bush by one of America’s leading liberal newspapers. Frankly, I had to check and double-check the web address while pinching myself to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. Yet, there it was: “PRESIDENT BUSH

James Taranto muses on the latest turn in the Plame affair.  From WSJ’s Best of the Web: If you’d told us earlier this week that the Valerie Plame kerfuffle was about to turn even sillier, we wouldn’t have believed you. But it has. This story appears on the front page of today’s New York Times: President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney’s chief

Among the Washington Press corps today, talk is centering nearly exclusively on the “timing” of the information flow that followed Vice President Dick Cheney’s non-lethal Saturday hunting accident (the VP sprayed birdshot into one of his party)—watching the White House press briefing right now, I find myself mesmerized by the interest reporters are showing in this story, from the tenacity of their questioning of Scott Mcclellan to their desire to

As an Iraq expat noted on FOXNews this morning, “every purple finger is a bullet to the chest of the terrorists.” A quick look at how our friends on the anti-war left are covering the momentous news [relevant entries bolded for your convenience; posts drawn from today and, in some cases, last evening]: Daily Kos:  “Mr. Bush, Your Coalition Is Shrinking” (Italy to draw down troops); “Open Thread”; “Is There

The Corner’s Cliff May points to this Reuel Marc Gerecht Opinion Journal piece on the CIA’s institutional sloppiness: […] left-leaning liberals, not well known for their defense of the CIA, have charged forward to equate the maintenance of cover for Langley’s operatives (who are, let us be frank, probably overwhelmingly antiwar and anti-Bush) with the country’s national security. In their eyes, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff for the

If the Democrats were determined to grab the headlines and turn attention back to the Libby indictments, they’ve likely succeeded.  In a press briefing moments ago, Harry Reid is justifying his secret session gambit, calling it a victory for the American people—followed up by a litany of leftist talking points with regard to Iraq:  the President lied about WMD; there were no Al-Qaeda/Iraq connections [an assertion disproved by the last