If the DimLib MSM beats this dead horse much longer, they are going to have to get another horse.

Marquez:  "At the heart of the mystery, leaking to the media the name of undercover CIA spy Valerie Plame."  Ms. Marquez, Valerie wasn't undercover at the time of the incident and hadn't been for years. 

Marquez:  "The apparent motive, to get back at her husband, Joe Wilson, for challenging the President's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."  Ms. Marquez, leave the mind-reading to Kreskin.  Revealing that Valerie Plame sent her husband on this errand rebuts Wilson's claim that VP Cheney sent him.

Who's playing dirty here, Ms. Marquez?

I guess Ms. Marquez forgot the real dirty politics: According to MSM, "Scooter" Libby goes on trail  for leaking the name of a secret CIA agent (as revenge for Joe Wilson's false report on yellowcake uranium). The fact is that Libby is not charged with outing Plame, he is charged with perjury and obstruction and that charge comes down to nothing more than the fact that Mr. Libby's memory of conversations with three different reporter, at different times, differs from that of the reporters themselves. Here's how the judge in the case, Reggie B. Walton, summarized it in a recent ruling on evidence: "The charges against the defendant are based entirely  upon what the defendant has said was discussed during his conversations with these news reporters."  A little background: In the summer of 2003, Washington was abuzz with the allegations of Mr. Wilson, a former ambassador who had been to Africa on a fact-finding mission for the CIA. Mr. Wilson served as the then-anonymous source for several articles alleging deliberate inaccuracies in the Bush Administration's case for war with Iraq, before making the case himself in a July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed. Mr. Wilson asserted that the now famous 16 words--"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"--were false. And, he wrote, Mr. Bush would have known they were false because he knew Mr. Wilson had already debunked the story. But, the truth was that  that far from debunking the Niger-uranium story, the information presented by the intelligence community to President Bush tended to support it. As the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) said: "Iraq also began vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake"; and "A foreign government service reported that as of early 2001 Niger planned to send several tons of 'pure uranium' (probably yellowcake) to Iraq. . . . We do not know the status of this arrangement." Later the 16 words were declared to be "well-founded" by Britain's high-level Butler inquiry, as well as by a bipartisan report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.  So, let us start with Plame's own husband, Joe Wilson, on the secret agent lie:  In July 2003, when Wilson demanded an investigation of a White House cabal for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by "outing" his wife, Mr. Wilson knew Ms. Plame did not meet the factual requirements for covert status under the act. She was neither covert at the time of publication nor had a covert foreign assignment within five years. However, she did write a memo pushing her husband as the one to make the trip and investigate the yellowcake rumor; a fact  that has been established  by a Senate investigation. In fact, Mr. Wilson's original claims that Mr. Bush lied about Iraq intelligence have been discredited many times over, including in a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wilson's politics? Having Karl Rove "frog-marched" out of the White House "in handcuffs." That's the fate Democratic partisan Wilson once predicted for Rove. However, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald informed Mr. Rove's lawyers he'll bring no charges as part of his investigation into who leaked the CIA identity of Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame.  Let us again look at Joe Wilson: He recently asked a federal judge not to force him to testify in the CIA supposed leak case and accused former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby of trying to harass him on the witness stand. According to an Associated Press report from Washington, Wilson's attorneys wrote : "Mr. Libby should not be permitted to compel Mr. Wilson's testimony at trial either for the purpose of harassing Mr. Wilson or to gain an advantage in the civil case," Any doubts about why Wilson does not want to be put under oath? Please re-read the paragraph above. Let us move on to the fact that Richard Armitage, US State Department, after 3 years of watching the Plame/Wilson/Libby mess admitted he was the source of the leak about Plame...a fact the Special Investigator ignores. He also ignores this: During the investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald learned that a former New York Times reporter, Cliff May, twice told the FBI that, prior to Mr. Novak's column, he had heard in an offhand way from a non government employee that Mr. Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, a clear indication that her employment was known on the street. Ditto columnist Hugh Sidey, who wrote that Ms. Plame's name was "knocking around in the sub rosa world . . . for a long time."  Well, so much MSM who continue to promote the same partisan falsehoods, obfuscate reality and leave out facts. 

The British government found that Bush's 16 words concerning yellowcake in the 2003 SOTU address were "well founded." Our own government found the same thing.

ABC News apparently doesn't think it's worthwhile to tell viewers that.

Also, Joe Wilson wrote two editorials prior to the March 2003 in which he claimed that IRAQ HAD WMD. Those editorials are hidden from the media on Wilson's own web site: www.politicsoftruth.com