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Here's an excerpt from the Seattle Times blog entry by their chief political reporter, David Postman:

Inslee held a small part in the Wilson/Plame saga. At was at a 2003 forum Inslee held in Shoreline that Joseph Wilson first accused someone in the White House of being involved in leaking the name of his wife. The forum was to look at intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war. Wilson said at the event:

"I don't think we're going to let this drop. At the end of the day it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frogmarched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me when I use that name. I measure my words."

Slate later reported that it was that event that first raised the "question of whether to investigate who in the Bush administration blew Plame's cover."

There's also a link to this thread in the blog entry :-)

And David Corn has admitted - on TV and in his book, that he is the one who "parked" on these statements by Wilson and started calling at every turn and whenever/wherever possible, for the naming of WHO in the Bush Administration has released the name of a covert agent, Valerie Plame.

I can't remember when David Corn also learned that the person who had inadvertently released Valerie Plame's name was the #2 guy at State, Richard Armitage.

But he admitted that knowing who had released it didn't stop him from calling for the Bush Admnistration to admit that someone in the White House had released the information - a false smear and he knew it.

If Fitzgerald were a prosecutor with any integrity, he would start arresting people for "conspiracy" - meaning those who knew it wasn't someone IN the White House but who were yelling "fire fire" and pointing to the White House!!!

Isn't that punishable, somehow?

Libel and slander are. I know that - and David Corn, for one, has been guilty of both. What a slime.