Valerie pLAME

It's true.

NOW, Robert Novak has outed Valerie Plame.

He has outed Plame and her husband as politically-driven dolts.

After years of staying mum, Novak FINALLY is free to tell his story.

But he's not getting a seven-figure book deal out of it, like Plame, Valerie Plame.

Plame's orginal deal fell through. Tsk, tsk.

Never fear. She got another publisher to buy her story.

The Associated Press article announcing that deal today is hilarious.

After Novak completely debunked the claims of Plame and her husband Joe Wilson, the AP STILL is reiterating the falsehoods it has been spewing for the past couple of years.

NEW York (AP) -- Former CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose outing led to the indictment of a White House official, has agreed to write her memoirs for Simon & Schuster, weeks after a reported seven-figure deal with the Crown Publishing Group fell through.

THAT'S NOT TRUE.

PLAME WAS NOT A COVERT AGENT.

SPECIAL COUNSEL PATRICK FITZGERALD INDICTED NO ONE ON "OUTING" PLAME.

I'M SO SICK OF THE LIB MEDIA CHANTING THAT "OUTING" MANTRA.

IT'S A LIE.

...Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a CIA operative whose identity was revealed after syndicated columnist Robert Novak named her in a column on July 14, 2003. Novak's column appeared eight days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war.

LIE.

She wasn't covert. Her identity was not "revealed" by Novak.

If he had done that, he would have been indicted.

In a July 14, 2005 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Joe Wilson himself said, "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."

Novak's column led to an extensive government investigation and the indictment of I. Lewis Libby, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby faces trial in January on perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges, accused of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about when he learned Plame's identity and what he subsequently told reporters.

Let's remember Fitzgerald's witch hunt was not only extensive; it was also expensive.

As far as Libby goes, the charges will probably be dropped because the case against him is so pathetically weak that it's laughable.

Simon & Schuster must be pretty hard up to offer Plame a deal for her story about nothing. Maybe they're hoping that there are enough wacky libs out there still clinging to the belief that a crime was committed that the book will make a profit.

I guess one should never underestimate the power of moonbat libs.

Novak's column discussing his role in the Plame case is short and sweet.

He writes:

For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew -- independent of me -- the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003. A federal investigation was triggered when I reported that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was employed by the CIA and helped initiate his 2002 mission to Niger. That Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

...I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who in America."

Way to keep a secret, Joe! Identify your spy wife by name in a publication that anyone can access.

Egad! How many of our covert CIA operatives are listed in "Who's Who in America"?

Someone should do an investigation and spend millions of dollars to find out.

And how do the Wilsons respond to Novak's humiliating revelations?

They announce their intention to sue Vice President Cheney, Scooter Libby, and, of course, Karl Rove.

From The Washington Post:

Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, filed a civil lawsuit yesterday against Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl Rove and former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, accusing the three of violating their constitutional rights in retaliation for Wilson's criticism of President Bush.

Plame and Wilson say that, after Wilson accused Bush of twisting intelligence about Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, Cheney, Rove and Libby conspired to "discredit, punish and seek revenge against the plaintiffs that included, among other things, disclosing to members of the press Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson's classified CIA employment."

Plame and Wilson ask for unspecified monetary compensation for what they described as a "gross invasion of privacy" that could jeopardize the safety of their children and target Plame for retribution by enemies of the United States. They also allege that the incident has impaired their professional opportunities. Plame has since retired from the agency.

What a load!

I wish they would put away the axe and quit grinding.

Lame, very lame.