Joe Wilson Rides Again
Judith Miller, ace reporter for The New York Times is willing to go to jail rather than reveal her sources in the outing of Valerie Plame.
I say let her rot then. She is a member of the chattering classes that were horrified, HORRIFIED that someone would compromise the integrity of an agent in that way, and demanded that the Bush administration get to the bottom of who the leaker was. The media KNOW WHO THE LEAKER WAS, and they are playing this silly game of “we’re not telling” with the government. The only conclusion a rational person can draw, especially given the bias in the press against Bush personally, is that the leaker is NOT from the administration, but in fact from the outside somewhere. Possibly even affiliated with the DNC or Democratic Party itself.
I have long postulated that the “leak” came from the left, and possibly from Joe Wilson himself. Mr. Wilson, you’ll remember, is famous for having stated “I’d like to see if we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs”. Wilson has a major axe to grind. His wife hooked him up and got him sent to Niger to investigate a very serious matter involving uranium and Iraq. He came back and gave the CIA no more information than they already had, and certainly not an emphatic denial. He then wrote a highly critical op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the administration for not taking him seriously. Then his wife’s name ends up in a Bob Novak column. The rest is, as they say, history.