Plame Plame Plame.... What a stupid controversy. Rove mentioned her to Novak, who alreayd knew who she was. Don't know what Libby did, but since he gave Judith Miller a waiver to allow her to discuss whatever they talked about, and she sat in jail for three months anyway, either she's dumb as a rock, or there's more to the story than we know. That's backed up by the fact that special prosecuter Fitzgerald has never said who or what exactly he is investigating.

The facts about Plame herself is that she hadn't had an undercover assignment in at least 5 years, which means it's not illegal to leak her name. In addition, she's got a couple of young kids to raise, so I doubt she was going to go on anymore assignments. If she was planning to go on another undercover assignment, she's not a very good mother, as those sort of tasks usually have some amount of danger attached. Several people like to spout that the "leak" endangered Plame and our national security. If that's so then don't you think she might be dead already, seeing as she's did the talk show circuit and was on the cover of Vanity Fair? And national security? Please! If it did endanger security, then the whole thing would have been quashed and she would not have been on the cover of a major magazine.

One also has to wonder where the outrage on the left was when Sandy Berger committed a felony by stealing documents from the archvies, lying about it, and shredding some of them, and got merely a slap ont he wrist from the State Department. Both could, and probably should, be seen as unimportant non-stories. The difference is that in one case there's a possibility of making the administration look bad, and in the other there's a possiblity of making Clinton's administration look bad. Two guesses which one the left is more upset about.