Newsweek: Much Ado About Rove and Plame

Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson

There seems to be Much Ado About Nothing about Karl Rove and Valerie Plame in the new Newsweek story regarding Matt Cooper’s sourcing of the Wilson-Plame affair, Matt Cooper’s Source, What Karl Rove told Time magazine’s reporter.

Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarter’s has the correct analysis of this piece, Thin Reed On Rove.

In other words, Rove did not reveal Plame’s name, nor did he tell Cooper that she was on a NOC list or performing any kind of covert work. Moreover, he told Cooper the truth, as the Senate Intelligence Committee found out. As the Washington Post reported almost a year ago, Wilson repeatedly lied about the role Plame had in pushing him for the assignment to Niger, as well as the information contained in his report on Niger. Rove warned Cooper not to trust Wilson or the public-relations offensive Wilson had launched to discredit the Bush administration by pointing out the conflict of interest that Wilson never acknowledged.

So far, this lead has gone nowhere in the Plame leak. Patrick Fitzgerald has done nothing but embarrass himself by jailing a reporter and turning her into a martyr over something that probably doesn’t amount to a prosecutable crime in the first place. It will be damned difficult to generate any outrage on behalf of a CIA agent who sent her husband on a public mission to undermine the American government during a time of war, mostly through lies and half-truths, and who now wants to hide behind a covert status that no one can actually establish applied at the time.

Fitzgerald needs to close the case and let Judith Miller out of jail.

While Leftie David Corn over at Huffington’s Post has Time to get ready for the Karl Rove frog-march?

The Left wants Karl Rove so badly because they cannot defeat him at the Polls.

But…… not this time OR EVER!

Individuals who should be prosecuted and frog-marched are Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson for being the double-crossing, self-serving dumbasses that they are.

And to the LEFT….. get another conpsiracy theory or YES blame the MSM, like Time and Newsweek.

Update #1

Dafydd over at Captains Quarters has this piece: If It’s Rove… Part Deux

It is easy to predict that the Left is going to have a field day with this, as indeed they should. In their usual nuance-trampling, black-and-white mode of attack, they will spin the Newsweek story like a top, twisting it to make it seem as if it “vindicates” all of their charges. But in reality, it explodes them like a soap bubble.

And from the profane comments that Flap has been moderating, it looks like the Moonbats are out ……. and the sun has not even set in the West!