I also recall that NOBODY was charged with a crime identified as "outing of spy Valerie Plame."
Scooter Libby is on trial for lying to the Grand Jury so pray tell,
Why is the press keeping this false mantra going that Valeri Plame was outed?
Tell a lie often enough . . . . . . . .
To paraphrase, it's not the nature of the evidence; it's the seriousness of the charge that counts.
Because it supports their agenda--to "prove" that the administration is a cesspool of corruption.
Because they have their plot line - Valerie Plame was "outed," and our national security damaged, in order to exact revenge on Joseph Wilson, who was exposing the lies of the Bush Administration to get us into a war to enrich big oil and Halliburton. The facts must be adjusted to fit the story. The press is living in a reality show and this is the plot that has been concocted for our entertainment.
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
She may have been outed as a CIA employee, but she was not covert at the time, as even Joe Wilson has admitted, so the Intelligence Identities Protection Act was never violated. As far as I know, outing someone as a non-covert CIA employee is legal.