Personally, I'm outraged that members of the news media would knowingly participate in this false attack on the White House. Their credibility is now zero.
I remember being mocked on one of these threads a couple of years ago by a certain freeper who took umbrage at my remark that if we could somehow have tapes and/or transcripts of all the relevant conversations among Joe and Valerie talking to various MSM, CIA, and State Dept. types (both active and retired) between May 1 and July 14, 2003 it would blow the whole story into the stratosphere. I KNEW there would be stuff like this if only we could get access to it, because there were just so many indications from several directions of active manipulations of this matter behind the scenes for many weeks before Novak published his column.
All the smoke and mirrors led by David Corn and Joe Wilson has been like a classic Soviet-style agitprop operation: raise hell on the wrong issues, accuse your opponents of the very evils you yourself are doing, lie cheat defraud, etc.
Corn and the Wilsons are among the most despicable figures in modern US history. Life in prison would be too good for all of them.