...with his investigation all but over, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has found no criminal conspiracy and no violations of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which makes it a crime in some circumstances to disclose the names of undercover CIA operatives. Among other problems, Plame doesn't seem to fit the act's definition of a "covert agent" -- someone who "has within the last five years served outside the United States." By 2003, Plame had apparently been working in Langley, Va., for at least six years, which means that, mystery of mysteries, the vice president's chief of staff was indicted for covering up something that wasn't a crime.

... Making the best of a weak hand, Democrats argued that the case was not about petty-ante perjury but, as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid put it, "about how the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who dared to challenge the president."

... the problem here is that the one undisputed liar in this whole sordid affair doesn't work for the administration. In his attempts to turn his wife into an antiwar martyr, Joseph C. Wilson IV has retailed more whoppers than Burger King.

Read the rest and then scratch your head and ask, why are we going through all this Plamegate mess in the first place? Whatever Scooter Libby said, or didn't say, nor when he said it, trumps the bed of lies that is the basis for the entire Plamegate affair.

What I want to know is more about are those lies that led to the antiwar movement.

As the Dems are so fond of saying - the American people want to know!

Now the REAL American people want to know about the lies that led up to and continue to fuel, the antiwar movement (REAL Americans, as opposted to the antiwar, Cindy Al-Sheehan, Turbin Durbin-supporting whackos on the Left)