I didn't know liberals were still defending Wilson.
They have to--he's the key to their "Bush Lied, People Died" mantra. Wilson is the dupe looking for the ball behind home plate in my little analogy. The British government is the fan that found the ball (the Brits stand by their story that Saddam bought uranium from Niger).
It even goes deeper than that. It's beginning to look like Wilson was just the point man in an effort to discredit Bush in his effort to go to war with Iraq. If Wilson goes down then a lot of rats follow him.
The Kerry Campaign dropped him like a stone after the Senate Intelligence Report came out. This whole story would be history except that the media hates Rove and could never pass up a chance to do him in. The WH punted this one down the road during the campaign and now they're paying for it. Not a bad play considering they won the election.
I love how Plame's importance as a super-secret agent who looks good in sunglasses and scarf keeps increasing. If Joe Biden leaked this stuff, she'd be a cubicle monkey