More on the Plame Game

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy points us back to the real unsolved conundrums in this bizarre power struggle.

And could the possibility that Plame’s cover has long been blown explain why the CIA was unconcerned about assigning a one-time covert agent to a job that had her walking in and out of CIA headquarters every day? Could it explain why the Wilsons were sufficiently indiscrete to pose in Vanity Fair, and, indeed, to permit Joseph Wilson to pen a highly public op-ed regarding a sensitive mission to which his wife – the covert agent – energetically advocated his assignment? Did they fail to take commonsense precautions because they knew there really was nothing left to protect?

We’d probably know the answers to these and other questions by now if the media had given a tenth of the effort spent manufacturing a scandal to reporting professionally on the underlying facts. And if they deigned to share with their readers and viewers all the news that’s fit to print … in a brief to a federal court.

This blog has been interested in related questions for some time.