Washington Times Rationalizes Valerie Plame's Outing!

The story finally makes their homepage - and it explains why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame had it coming, those lousy Democratic BASTARDS!

Wilson, wife have tight ties to Democrats
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man accusing the White House of a vendetta against him and his wife, is an ex-diplomat turned Democratic partisan.

President Bush, he wrote in an article in the far-left Nation magazine that was published before the Iraq war began, is not interested in democracy in the Middle East but "this new American imperialism."

"The new imperialists will not rest until governments that ape our world view are implanted throughout the region, a breathtakingly ambitious undertaking, smacking of hubris in the extreme."

His wife is Valerie Plame Wilson, who works for the CIA's directorate of operations, a clandestine service. Her name and spy job, revealed in syndicated columnist Robert Novak's column in July, has become a Democratic campaign issue and triggered a Justice Department investigation of who at the White House leaked that fact, if anyone at the White House did. Federal law prohibits government officials from identifying clandestine CIA employees publicly; it does not prohibit journalists from publishing such information.

A little detail the Times is hiding from its readers here: Novak SAID he got the info from high government officials in his original piece:

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report.

Back to the Times article which adds this important piece of information on how Wilson currently makes a living:

Mr. Wilson now works at the Middle East Institute as a scholar and frequent Bush critic.

One voice in my head tells me I shouldn't give a rat's ass what the Washington Times says - but another knows that this is where a lot of the Pied Piper's minions get their "news" because they've been taught that the Post is evil and (shudder) lib'rul. And these poor souls' naivete is preyed upon by these hacks posing as journalists.

So I'm pissed. Sue me.