J'accuse Deux

Plame Game Revisited

“ Memory can be unreliable, and misstatements can happen despite pure intentions. It's only fair game to point this out. So say Valerie Plame Wilson, former CIA case manager and Vanity Fair cover girl, and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, former ambassador to Gabon and extravagant self-promoter. Too bad the Wilsons, a power-mad federal prosecutor, an officious federal judge, a confused jury and a badly misled president wouldn't apply those same common-sense considerations to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, wrongly convicted of perjury in the case stemming from State Department official Richard Armitage's public identification of Mrs. Wilson as a CIA employee. ['Fair Game' provides chance to re-examine perjury case]

Mr. And Mrs. Plame There's nothing new  here. Quinn Hillyer writes to counter the "deeply dishonest"  film "Fair Game," starring Sean Penn - in his usual George W. Bush-is-evil mode - as Ambassador *cough* Wilson.   When some future American Émile Zola  pens  J'accuse Deux, documenting  Democrat Media Complex corruption, this may well be the author's outline. Manufacture something against a political enemy to be outraged over Keep it on the New York Time's front page for several weeks. Hold congressional hearings, being careful to ignore any perjury by your homies. When the initial charges are debunked, ignore the debunk and press forward anyway. When it all falls apart, create some reason for the Washington Post to claim victory Have someone in Hollywood make a movie about it. Give the movie an Oscar, and the director a Nobel Peace Prize. How many times in the past 37 years have we seen this played out by Leftardians?