Campbell Brown Shills for Wilson

Campbell Brown's interview with Joe Wilson could be characterized as a love letter to him rather than a tough interrogation.

It was embarrassing.

Brown not only let Wilson lie without challenge, she asked him leading questions, enabling him to distort the truth.

She highlighted his stellar credentials as a diplomat in Africa. Therefore, she said, it made sense that the CIA would send Wilson to Niger.

Interesting.

In July of 2004, The Washington Post gave a much different account than Wilson did.

More recently, last Tuesday, the Post ran a piece showing Wilson in a light far harsher than the soft glow of the lens used by NBC.

Most important to remember:

VALERIE PLAME WAS OUTED BY JOE WILSON.

From FOX, July 15, 2005:

In Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth, he writes that he and his future wife both returned from overseas assignments in June 1997. Neither spouse was again stationed outside the United States, according to the book; they appear to have remained in Washington, D.C., where they married and became parents of twins.

Six years later, in July 2003, Plame's name was revealed by columnist Robert Novak.

The column's date is important because the law against unmasking the identities of U.S. spies says a "covert agent" must have been on an overseas assignment "within the last five years." The assignment also must be long-term, not a short trip or temporary post, two experts on the law say. Wilson's book makes numerous references to the couple's life in Washington over the six years up to July 2003.

Victoria Toensing, former counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee who helped write the law protecting the identities of intelligence agents, told FOX News on Thursday that "no, in a nutshell," Rove did not commit a crime. Plame's status at the time of the revelation is key to that conclusion, she said.

"That's a very big question," Toensing said, referring to exactly what status Plame had within the CIA at the time of the alleged "leak." "When did she leave her foreign assignment?"

If it was in 1997, as noted in Wilson's book, Toensing said, "she would not have even have to come to the definition of a 'covert agent' under the law how we wrote it."

Brown almost grudingly acknowledged that Wilson has come under attack. However, she gave scant air time to the charges of Wilson's "critics."

Stone Phillips ended the segment with a reminder to watch an exclusive LIVE interview with Joe Wilson tomorrow morning on Today.

When I add all of this up, I come to the conclusion that a special prosecutor should investigate NBC's role in trying to undermine the U.S. government