The truth about Joseph Wilson

***UPDATE*** Since I posted this the Special Prosecutor indicted Scooter Libby on Purgery and Obstruction of Justice charges. The same charges that Clinton plead guilty to and Martho Stewart was convicted of. The prosecutor has obviously determined that no crime was committed in the "leaking" of Ms. Plames identity but has possibly trapped Libby in misstatements. Who knows what will come of that.

What has still not happened is the truth about Plame and Wilson come out in the MSM. Read the Weekly Standard (here, here, and here)articles for a clear picture of who Plame and Wilson are and what they tried to do to the President. Read the comments below to get a picture of what sort of thinking (or lack thereof) is behind the "Bush lied" mentality that nearly half the voters in America have. It's amazing that the half that hates Bush doesn't understand what their hatred says about the half of us that love him.

ORIGINAL POST
There is currently a grand jury investigation into the "leaking" the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. The investigation seems to be focused on two high level members of the Bush administration..........Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.....as the source of the leaks. There is a great deal of speculation about possible indictments coming down in the case. I'm predicting that there will be no indictments, and here's why............There is a very high likelyhood that Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are the source of the "leak" about her status as a "covert" CIA operative. Why do I believe this? It's a long and very boring story and it starts with Wilson's trip to Niger to "investigate" Iraq's supposed interests in buying "Yellowcake" uranium from African nations. The facts on this investigation are laid bare in this article in The Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes

Hayes makes the case that Wilson and Plame set out to sabotage the President's campaign by creating the illusion that the CIA had informed Bush that Iraq was not trying to obtain Yellowcake. Clearly there is plenty of evidence that Iraq was indeed trying to buy the stuff. But Wilson and Plame were able to get the media to spin the story the way they.........longtime democrat activists.............wanted it spun

You see, it's easy for the media to make false charges and drum up a case where there is none, but it's difficult to make that case hold up in court when all the facts are brought in by agressive defense attorneys.

I think if the prosecutor, Fitzgerald, brings indictments he will be placing many journalists and others (CIA types) in the hotseat where the whole truth will come out. My thoughts are that the anti-Bush forces do not what the whole truth out and are pressing hard to keep the Grand Jury from indicting. Afterall, the harm they wanted done to Bush has already been done.

**NOTE** I began writing this a week or so ago, but much has happened in the case since then and today I am not so confident that there will be no indictments. Rumors today are that Fitzgerald is considering "Obstruction of Justice" or "Perjury" charges, meaning there was no "illegal outting" of Plame's identity in the first place but he thinks someone lied to cover up the crime that never happened. It may be that the anti-Bush forces are dumber than I thought.

Of course if there are indictments the defense will aggressively lay out the case that Plame and Wilson's planned to damage Bush's campaign in cahoots with the media. They will also go after the media who is attempting to hide their other "anonymous sources". Everyone who testifies will try to cover their hinnys by outting whoever the real "rats" in this case, bringing the anti-Bush chickens home to roost, which will amount to a major public opinion win for Bush and loss for his enemies.