"I have no doubt whatsoever - NONE - that if this Plame thing had involved a Democratic administration, the whole thing would have died a quiet death a year ago - no investigation, no grand jury, NOTHING. And that makes me livid."
Why would it make you livid if there is nothing to the story? Clinton was the most investigated President in our lifetimes (for good reason), and had this happened on his watch, I can guarantee some dust would be kicked up.
If *what* had happened under Clinton? If a CIA sub-group on their own volition sent a person known to be a political enemy of the sitting president off to a foreign land and then later leak misleading and outright false tales about the trip, lying about the WH's role in it and so on? You think that would have been kicked up?
If it had, you can bet the press would, as they ought to here, focus on this treachery to the nation, and not the lame and baseless spin that his idiotic wife's "name" was "leaked" in order to bring precious Joe Wilson down, when in fact reporters were told her role in order to explain and justify this outrageous situation. Her name was given by those sympathetic to the Wilsons in order to explain the inexplicable.