[c-five]

And here you'll find the original July Senate Intelligence Committe report referenced.

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_rpt/

[Onelifetogive]

Kuttner retails the myth of the heroic Joe Wilson, adding some embellishments of his own:

Re-tells?

[Ramius]

It continues to amaze me that this "story" has any legs at all. To hear Novak on the subject, apparently pretty much everybody in DC including most of the reporters and most of the waitresses at any number of DC bars knew that Plame was with the CIA and was Wilson's wife.

It would appear that she was pretty much an administrator at Langley anyway... not a field operator... I'm having trouble detecting where the real story is here...

[okie01]

Yost and Kuttner have both fallen afoul of the First Rule of Journalism: Never undertake to write a story about which your audience is more familiar with the facts than you.

[Wolfhound777]

All of this seems so obvious that one can only wonder what standards of evidence, logic and common sense the Boston Globe applies to its columnists.

This is why no rational human being trusts the mainstream media anymore and are turning to other sources for their news. The MSM will alter, embellish, or outright falsify any story to push their personal agendas. They have truly become the lowest form of professional (and I use that term lightly)life.

[fso301]

Bump

[Waco]

NYC won't be getting the Summer Oly's now, so I guess Hillary will resign? Yuk Yuk

[ozzymandus]

The leftist media has a lot invested in this "story", and it's starting to look like they're going to have a lot of egg on their faces when the truth finally comes out and the whole non-story is told. I look for them to keep muddying the waters in a futile effort to cover their own incompetence and still blame Bush for something, even if they can't describe exactly what it is.

On the bright side, I read the Newsweak "exposee" that Crazy Larry O'Donnel said was going to pin the blame on Karl Rove. It did nothing of the sort, in spite of the author's attempt to smear Rove by innuendo. I look forward to O'donnel and his fellow mud-slingers to be thoroughly ridiculed.

[ThirstyMan]

Judith Miller, go directly to jail. do not pass go. no $200 for you!

What I haven't been able to figure out about this non-story is why Novak has escaped the hot seat.

The only thing I can figure is that he must've given up the name of his informant without a squabble...something Judith Miller should have done as well if that's the case.

Doesn't the idea that she is protecting an administration official seem odd as well? That a high administration official is implicated has been pedaled to the public, and even the motive has been sold, to get even with Wilson, ... without any factual substantiation so far!

We "know" so much but so far it's all speculation.

The identity and the motive of the snitch remains unknown. But that stops no reporter from carrying the alleged story line forward with each new article.