Plame/CIA leak/Wilson/Libby: peircing the opacity! (short verision)

Isn't that special?

As_Cliff Kincaide correctly notes, Lewis "Scooter" Libby is charged with lying about telling the press their reports(based on Wilson's fables) were wrong._The Washington Post's Pincus is still correcting his corrections of the Wilson fable published 2 1/2 years ago, The NYT's Kristof still hasn't come clean.

And virtually all of the rest of the journos keep acting as if the SSCI Report (Wilson's story was a pack of lies), Butler Report (Iraq was most certainly seeking uranium in Africa and that analysis was not based on forged documents but on solid intel) and Silberman/Robb (the Administration did not manipulate the intel) reports didn't exist.___

So here we have it folks: A kerfuffle about a liar whose wife was not a very covert agent and whose "outing" (contrary to The Nation's Corn's storyline) caused no damage._

Repeated government inquiries prove the Wilson story utterly false; the press keeps reporting the story and ignoring the evidence that three independent bi-partisan investigations said so; and someone gets indicted for lying about telling the press they were printing falsehoods.

Isn't that special?_Too bad there is no way to indict the press. - Clarice Feldman 10/28/05
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments_print.php?comments_id=3511
[Five links to sources in above original.]

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Now, before I’m flamed for ignoring that no WMD was found, and therefore Wilson spoke Truth to Power, consider this:

The UK’s Butler Review states in 2002 the CIA “agreed that there was evidence that [uranium from Africa] had been sought.” In the run-up to war in Iraq, the British Intelligence Services apparently believed that Iraq had been trying to obtain uranium from Africa; however, no evidence was passed on to the IAEA apart from the forged documents (believed to have come from an Italian businessman in the pay of the French government - on of the biggest beneficiaries of mega-billion dollar UN "Oil-for-food" corruption).

This then was the context in which Ambassador Joe Wilson went to Niger in February of 2002. Based on multiple sources and the best judgement of the CIA, Saddam Hussein was trying purchase uranium. Since there were no working commercial nuclear reactors in all of Iraq, his interest could only be based on his desire to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program.

There was no “fixing” of intelligence or “shaping” intelligence to fit some preconceived agenda. (That misunderstanding stems from a British locution at odds with plain spoken American English.) Despite UN resolutions and sanctions, Saddam was looking to build the bomb. And he had a prototype gas centrifuge to do it with, as explained in The Bomb in My Garden (2004) by the nuclear scientist no authority had under suspicion, Mahdi Obeidi.

But these inconvenient facts, as well as Wilson’s own prevarications, get in the way of the media’s convenient line: The power crazed Bush White House tried to punish a noble truth-teller and got caught! kind of...sort of.
(See a recent dissection of the NYTimes/WashPost almost continually misleading coverage by, I think, a communications prof at University of North Carolina, here
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/baby_steps_towa.html)