Stuff It, Democrats!

I'd like to send a simple memorandum to Senator Kerry, Senator Clinton, Senator Kennedy, Governor Dean, and all of the other stooges out there whose witch hunt has failed. The memorandum would say, simply: Suck it!

WASHINGTON — Although Joseph Wilson (search) and many Democrats have spent the last week saying Karl Rove leaked the identity of a CIA operative to journalists, it may have been the other way around, according to sources familiar with grand jury testimony.

Rove, President Bush's senior adviser, testified to a grand jury that he talked with two journalists before they divulged the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, but that he originally learned about her from the news media and not government sources, a person briefed on the testimony told The Associated Press.

The person, who works in the legal profession, told AP that Rove testified last year that he remembered specifically being told by columnist Robert Novak that Plame, who is Wilson's wife, worked for the CIA. Days earlier, Wilson, a former ambassador, had written a harsh critique of the Iraq war that was published in the New York Times

This is almost too funny for words. And I was listening to either Medved or Lars, and they made a good point. If Miss Plame was such an important covert agent, she didn't make a very concerted effort at protecting her anonymity, did she? She arranged for her husband, an American ambassador (read: very public position) to go on a high profile mission to Niger, and then he wrote a high profile article about it that was published in one of the country's most widely circulated news sources. That's not exactly the actions one would expect from a double secret probation covert agent, is it?

It looks like Karl Rove is off the hook, and not surprisingly, the Democrats have succeeded admirably in further marginalizing themselves.