All things considered, I still don’t expect this whole Karl Rove/Valerie Plame business to go anywhere, unless by “going somewhere,” you mean “stir up a lot of froth among the punditocracy, but remain entirely ignored by the majority of the American public.”
Having said that, my question for the day is this: If, as Republicans and their assorted proxies and stooges are claiming, there was no crime because Valerie Plame was not a covert agent for the CIA, why did that CIA make a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding the leaking of her name/identity?
Of course, practically speaking, this question is beside the point. Rove’s supporters aren’t making these claims because they actually believe them, or even because they think they will convince anyone. Their goal is to spew so much confusion, information, and outrageous lies that no one will be able to make heads or tails of the whole affair, chalk it up to one more inside-the-Beltway circle jerk, and give up trying to figure it out.
It’s the same strategy they’ve used for every other scandal that’s cropped up since Bush took office.