Two years ago, Patrick Fitzgerald said:
"This case is not about a whistle-blower. It's about potential retaliation against a whistle-blower."Today, Michael Barone writes (with my emphasis):
Note what Libby was not charged with: violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. To violate that act, the agent whose identity has been disclosed must have been serving abroad within five years of the disclosure. According to a book by Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, Plame had not served abroad since 1997, more than five years before the 2003 disclosure. So the act was not violated by anyone. This was an investigation of people who were telling the truth about a person, Joseph Wilson, who was telling lies.Just so.
Updated: Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:30 AM CDT