Last November I told you that Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), a group of anti—Administration lefties closely linked to Kerry and the Democrats, were spreading the Ambassador Munchausen fable with the assistance of a complicit media which disingenuously referred to them as "former intelligence officials".  NRO and Seixon note that farce continues, singling out Tim Russert's cohorts at MSNBC as the biggest VIPers' shills: What do Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Joe Wilson, David Shuster and Jason Leopold all have in common? Seixon connects the dots: There can no longer be any doubt that most of these explosive and uncorroborated 'news' stories are being manufactured by the tight—knit group of former intelligence officials in tandem with Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, and most likely backers in the Democratic Party. It is also probably no coincidence that David Shuster and Chris Matthews of MSNBC have carried many of the same rumors and...(Read Full Post)