Until He Is Found Innocent...

This will be the absolute, unconditional, unqualified, downright final word from these quarters concerning the Libby fiasco. Good grief but it is distracting me from the Anna Nicole story.

"...WE'RE also learning more about the so-called "con spiracy" to out Valerie Plame: There wasn't one.

Rather than a carefully-planned conspiracy, testimony in the trial has revealed a confused and disjointed White House reaction to Joseph Wilson's broadside against the Bush administration.

When Wilson began taking very public shots at the administration's case for war - first anonymously, then by name in a Times op-ed and an appearance on "Meet the Press" - the first reaction in the vice president's office was not to develop an evil plot. It was to ask, "Who is this guy? and "Did we really send him to Africa?"

When they found out about Wilson's wife and her role in the matter, they quite reasonably thought that answered part of the questions. "To me, it was an explanation as to why we had found this Ambassador Wilson and sent him off to Africa," Grenier testified. "I thought that was germane to the story." So they passed it on.

ONE thing we're not learning more about is Valerie Plame herself. Was she a covert CIA agent - was her job status classified?

Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has said publicly that she was classified, but the jury hasn't been allowed to hear any of it. "What her actual status was, or whether any damage would result from disclosure of her status, are totally irrelevant to your decision of guilt or innocence," Judge Reggie Walton told the jurors on the first day.

Whatever her status, don't expect to learn it from this trial.

NOW it's Libby's turn to present a defense. In com ing days, we'll see journalists like Bob Woodward and Robert Novak - the man who originally introduced Valerie Plame to the world. And then we might see Dick Cheney himself.

Will they give us the definitive answer on whether Lewis Libby lied to the grand jury? Probably not. But they'll certainly tell us more about what happened back in those strange days of 2003, when the CIA leak controversy began."

Fitzmas never came. Moonbats the country over were incensed. Something HAD to be done, even if the done'ing was nothing more than an exercise in futility. Were this to have occurred during the Clinton years, the yellowstream media would have paid it so little attention that by now we'd ALL be trying to remember what the fuss was about.

One thing TO never disremember. They, and we know you they is, care more for the protection of their fragile ego's than safeguarding these United States.

What horrible people.