Pure fiction from the Reverend.

Any intelligent human can read the trial transcripts of Scooter Libby's multiple felony conviction case and see and understand for themselves. Perjury and obstruction convictions have nothing to do with forgetfulness.

It's clear from the transcripts that Dick Cheney's office was Ground Zero for the Plame outing caper. Rove, Fleischer, Libby, Armitage did the outing. All but Armitage did the outing as part of a White House conspiracy to silence any intelligence people who might be thinking about doing what Joe Wilson did, that is, speak truth to liars in power.

The Plame case is, or should be, a case study in the dual narratives approach Karl Rove brought with him to the White House. Media members, who can't speak truth to power any longer for fear of losing their access to power, spun the dual narratives about Plame. Still today 1/3 of Americans believe a lie about what really happened.

King's post here is proof positive he has fully accepted a false account.

I guess Fitzpatrick came out with some green in his pockets and is now known, by many of us, as a failure since he didn't get very close to Bush even though the opposition wants us to believe that he was just next to him. The great lawyer, the self-professed diplomat, and the undercover spy are all famous now with some green to spend in their reclining years.

I will never understand how anybody as supposedly deep in undercover work drove to work at Langley every day, wore a badge around the place and worked all day in the open could be seen as so classified as she was. Maybe the CIA isn't as secret as they want to think they are.

WILSON: I will tell you, when I heard the now infamous 16 words in the State of the Union address, I thought it was odd. But don‘t forget, there are two other countries in Africa that also mine yellowcake ore.

WILSON: So you know, it just seemed strange. And Joe spent the next couple months discreetly working back channels to try to understand how such a whopper got into the State of the Union address, when on at least on four occasions the CIA had taken that claim, the nuclear threat, out of major speeches done by the president.

Plame/Wilson is telling us they were out to get the Bush administration. Never mind that what she calls a 'whopper' was believed to be true by the source, the British government, and it still is believed to be true. What she is also leaving out is; we know from George Tenet's book that it was Tenet himself who said he should have vetted that Bush speech and removed anything the CIA couldn't corroborate, which included those 16 words, but HE DIDN'T DO IT. They had removed those words from previous speeches, as Plame said, but just didn't examine that particular speech, as standard procedure calls for them to do. So when Plame wonders how the 16 words got into the speech, why doesn't she mention it was because of a CIA failure ? Why does she call the 16 words a 'whopper' ? I think we both know the reason for that – Politics. She's no innocent here.

I thought king was very cute in his ending but he was also very right about how the MSM deals with news.

Come back to your people, Valerie.

On September 16, 2003 the CIA sent a letter to the US Department of Justice, asserting that Plame's status as a CIA undercover operative was classified information and requested a federal investigation.