Sweetness & Light, one of my favorite blogs, has some very astute comments on Bob Woodward's coming forward to put the lie to Patrick Fitzgerald's statement that Libby was the first official to "out" the non—covert CIA desk Jockey Valerie Plame: ...note how the Washington Post sat on this story so the Libby indictment could get as much play as possible. They wanted to make sure that crime against humanity got good and fixed in the mind of the populace. During the weeks the WP knew about Woodward's involvement, how many articles did they run suggesting Rove might still be at risk of indictment? Also note that Bob Woodward, the Patron Saint of Journalism, was only too happy to keep his capacious yap zipped and aid in the commission of a crime — and a travesty of justice. For we would have never heard anything about this if Woodward hadn't been ratted out by a "third party." In fact, it was probably the (purported) administration official who brought this to...(Read Full Post)