Once, after I contacted him following an ABC Nightline appearance of his with Jennings, I asked him why he was supporting the 5th Column while we were at war. I asked him why he thought that he should go out of his way to appear on TV to side with Wilson and those attacking and shamelessly smearing the president and Commander in Chief, if all he was telling me was that he wanted to find out who leaked Plame's name.
Was he concerned about the unprofessionalism and unreliability of Wilson and Plame in the story that they were all too happy to create and how that related to the war or was he concerned that a counter-proliferation specialist had concluded that Saddam was innocent before even sending her mendacious husband to go and ask his friends whether Saddam had approached them to purchase uranium from them? His evasive answer was NO.
So Larry McDonald is one of those people the media drag out to support Wilson? As Edward G. Robinson said in "Double Indemnity", "I smell a rat, Walter."