If Plame’s boobish hubby had reported the truth about Saddam’s nuke ambitions, we’d be hearing 24/7 about how crazy it was that CIA agents were sending their spouses off on fact-finding missions of importance to national security. But no one seems at all bothered by this.
The lying Joseph Wilson, in fact, reported to the government information that tended to support the idea that Iraq had been shopping in Africa for yellowcake.
It was to the New York Times that he reported differently.
How is it that the lying Joseph Wilson was free to make use of information he acquired during a government financed trip on behalf of the CIA to a private organization like the New York Times?
At the very least is seems like appropriation of public property for private gain by the lying Joseph Wilson.
At worst, it looks like treason, something very familiar to the New York Times.
But then, given the refusal of the Justive Department to pursue treason charges, even when the treason is egregious and public, our laws against treason are nothing more than a dead letter. There really is no law regarding treason against the United States that the government is willing to enforse.