"There have been a series of leaks coming out of CIA intended to wound Bush and obstruct the war. The Wilson/Plame case just allows us a chance to catch some of them red-handed."
This has been my theory for the past week or so. The Porter Goss purge of the CIA was an acknowledgement that there were, and probably still are, old bureaucrats with democrat sympathies who are more interested in party politics than in doing their jobs of protecting the nation. Like most Washington lifers, Wilson and Plame have many journalist friends with like views and frequent social contact. Many have said that all of Plames friends and neighbors knew she worked at the agency and I have no doubt Judy Miller sought her out as a source for WMD articles more than once.
Yup. Judy Miller's sitting in jail because she doesn't want to reveal that she knew about Plame's employment from Plame herself.
If anybody deserves indictment here, it's Plame and her husband Wilson for conspiracy to harm national security via disinformation for political purposes.
I smell a setup! Back in 2003 Schumer/Wilson were suggesting Rove was the leak...
This is the old game, and Bush is winning every time. Do you guys remember the report about Bush telling Daschle if he ever lied to him or something to that effect Bush would take him down politically?
...And where's Daschle now????????