We are speculating, based on the above and more, that there was no crime. But the Dept. of Justice assigned a special prosecutor to find out, and until he is finished, we can only speculate.
"We are speculating, based on the above and more, that there was no crime. But the Dept. of Justice assigned a special prosecutor to find out, and until he is finished, we can only speculate."
No. It went more like this:
1. Some cubicle drones (most likely blue-haired old ladies) at the CIA are assigned to scan the US newspapers for mention of the CIA.
2. They saw the name of Plame and that she was an agent. The bluehairs went to their computers and punched in a few words and sent the info to the Justice Department for investigation. (Something that happens more than once a week, by the way.)
3. We would probably have never heard another word about it, but Admiral Joe Wilson began to scream from the rooftops, and since he was working for the DNC and Kerry's campaign--he was able to get enough press that the (cowed) Bush administration decided they better put a special prosecutor on this.
If there had been a law broken, Fitzgerald would have mentioned it. He didn't.