It sure is telling when the instinctive reaction of this Administration and its multitudinous sycophants is to find some way to smear and discredit the victims of a crime rather than get to the bottom of it.

The Unfrozen Caveman "Law Professor" may find modern concepts such as "blowing a cover" and "misprision of felony" complicated, confusing and frightening...

Robert Novak may have released an octopussian cloud of ink to obscure the landscape...

...but there are some fairly stark facts here that are hard to sweep under a rug:

• Plame was an undercover operative. (So says the White House counsel's request to staff that they destroy nothing [more].)
  
  
• Her name made it into the papers, revealing her CIA affiliation.
  
  
• People in the Bush administration were the source.
  
  
• Months have passed with no firings or prosecutions or (apparently) even internal investigations related to the incident.

And so, we come to this summary from Digby @ Hullabaloo:

If President Bush refuses to personally and forcefully pursue a national security risk on his own staff, how can we trust him to keep this country safe?

Damn straight.

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Also, Slate wins the pithy headline contest for today with "Leaks and the Leaking Leakers Who Leak Them"