Don't you just love this by Redstate??? Couldn't happen to any more deserving: Fitzgerald Indicts Two in Plame Scandal
By: Blanton · Section: News
redstate.org
Lawyers close to the Plame investigation say that Fitzgerald will indict Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson for obstruction of justice and perjury. In addition, Wilson will be indicted for outing his wife, who was a covert CIA agent. Additional charges are being considered against Valerie Plame for her role in selecting her own husband for a government assignment in a concerted political effort to undermine the administration.
Now, that's actually not true. But, given the media's handling of this matter, this post should be treated with the same credibility that the media is presenting statements of "lawyers close to the Plame investigation." In point of fact, there are several lawyers on this site who have kept up with the material and they are probably as close to the investigation as the ones being quoted in the media, which is to say not very close at all.
Something will happen this week. But, we should all tread carefully in making predictions and jumping to conclusions. Likewise, we should refrain from jumping on the "must resign" bandwagon until the facts get out there. Lastly, as Michael Barone said today
Rove and Libby did seek to discredit Joseph Wilson -- as they should well have done. As the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a bipartisan report in July 2004, just about everything Wilson said publicly about his trip to Niger was untrue. He said that he had discredited reports that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Niger. But the CIA people to whom he reported concluded that, if anything, he substantiated such reports. He said that he pointed out that certain other intelligence reports were forged. But the forgeries did not appear until eight months after his trip. He said his wife had nothing to do with his trip to Niger. But it was she who recommended him for the trip. And on and on.
Yes, and had they not tried to discredit Wilson, they would have been negligent in their political duties. Wilson and the left can claim Wilson had some high and noble goals, but he was and is a charlatan attempting to become a living media martyr.
Update [2005-10-24 21:32:37 by Blanton]: Let me add this: I think it is just as plausible that Wilson gets indicted as it is for Rove and Libby to get indicted. Of course, all the Democrats right now bemoaning Fitzgerald getting attacked by Republicans (something that is not happening, by the way, save for Hannity), will do all they can to attack and discredit Fitzgerald.
Oct 24th, 2005: 20:45:07
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