THE BOTTOM-LINE ON THE PLAME-WILSON AFFAIR AND THE LIBBY TRIAL

FOUR FACTS:

1 - ARMITAGE WAS THE LEAKER. IT DID NOT COME FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

2 - THE NOW FAMOUS 16 WORDS IN THE SOTU ARE STILL TRUE.

3 - JOE WILSON LIED ABOUT HIS MISSION, WHO SENT HIM, AND WHAT HE FOUND.

4 - ARMITAGE LEAKED THE NAME OF WILSON'S WIFE TO BUTTRESS WILSON, NOT TO ATTACK HIM. [SEE PARAGRAPHS 13 &14.]

5 - OVER 500 TONS - YES TONS - OF YELLOWCAKE URANIUM WERE FOUND IN POST-WAR IRAQ.

WHICH MEANS THAT DESPITE THE CHENEY/ROVE/LIBBY WITCH HUNT, THE ENTIRE LEFTIST MSM MEME ON THIS STORY IS TOTALLY WRONG:

THE FACT IS THAT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE DID NOT LIE ABOUT WMD, AND THEY DID NOT ATTEMPT TO "GET" WILSON, OR TO SEND A "CHILLING" MESSAGE TO OTHER WOULD-BE "WHISTLEBLOWERS."

FURTHERMORE, FITZGERALD KNEW THAT THE BASIS OF THE CASE - A WHITE HOUSE EFFORT TO "GET" WILSON-PLAME - WAS TOTAL BS BEFORE HE CALLED A SINGLE WITNESS -- BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT ARMITAGE WAS THE LEAKER ON DAY-2 OF HIS JOB.

WHICH IS WHY, IN MY MIND, THIS ENTIRE CASE WAS A POLITICAL HATCHET JOB, AND THE VERDICT IS BS.

[ASIDE: IF ARI FLEISHER AND WALTER PINCUS DID NOTHING WRONG - (BECAUSE UNDER OATH THEY GAVE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS ABOUT WHO SAID WHAT TO WHOM, AND WHEN), THEN NEITHER DID LIBBY.]

COMPLETE ROUND UP AT MEMEORANDUM.