A Colossal Waste Of Time

And yes, I’m talking about the Valerie Plame/Joseph Wilson case. Well, not exactly the case itself. I’m talking about my blogging and the blogging of others. Lefties and righties are citing reports from the left and the right, and it ultimately comes down to one thing. Something I said in my first post on the issue.

I don’t think for a minute that the president had any knowledge of this leak, if it even came from the White House. It should go without saying that anybody, regardless of political party, who would endanger the lives of undercover agents does not deserve to be in office. But let’s get the facts out there before we start the lynch mob, okay?

The National Review, The Drudge Report, Robert Novak, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and all the rest… they’ll keep reporting on the scandal du jour. And the Justice Department will quietly investigate and then release its findings. And until that time comes, it all boils down to “wait and see.” I’m going to put myself on a 48 hour embargo on the story, just to let it develop a little more.

The very latest, by the way, is that we finally have a named source (albeit one who would have had a heck of a lot more credibility had he not gone off on the war with Iraq) who says Valerie Plame was indeed “undercover”. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean she was covered under the laws the CIA says she violated, but so what? I’ll repeat: anybody who would endanger the lives of undercover agents does not deserve to be in office. The President feels the same.

Bush called the investigation “a good thing” and said he has told his administration “to be fully cooperative.” “There’s just too many leaks, and if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is,” the president said. “If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. And so I welcome the investigation.”

We still have to find out if a leak occured and where. But give it time, please… and I’m going to try and heed my own advice.

***caveat***
On the show this morning, I did say I’d be talking about this in Hour 3 tomorrow (Wednesday). I will do that, but only with the understanding that there’s a lot of information out there to disseminate, and that anybody who claims to know how this is going to play out is kidding themselves.