Today’s Boston Globe takes on the Libby verdict as a means to push this issue further at Dick Cheney:

To get Congress and the American public to support a war in Iraq, Bush and his top officials in 2002 and early 2003 wove a tissue of fabrications and manipulated intelligence about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda and its preparations for nuclear weapons. When former diplomat Joseph Wilson wrote a newspaper article in the summer of 2003 that started tugging on one of the threads in this web of deceptions — that Iraq had tried to procure uranium in Africa — evidence suggests that Cheney tried to discredit Wilson.

To do so, administration officials leaked the fact that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA official and had played a role in sending him to Africa in 2002 to track down the uranium rumor. Wilson discovered the rumor to be unfounded, and said so in a report to administration officials, only to see the rumor repeated in administration statements during the build-up to the war. Revealing Wilson’s wife’s role would plant the notion that the trip to Niger was a “junket,” a phrase that Cheney used in notes he made on a copy of Wilson’s newspaper article.

But the smear boomeranged. There is a law against disclosing an undercover CIA official’s identity, and Cheney, Libby, Bush aide Karl Rove, and other officials had to testify before a grand jury. Libby’s statements were persuasively rebutted by other testimony, leading to the charges against him.

Since violation of the law protecting CIA officials’ identity, requires knowing intent, none of the leakers was charged with that. Yesterday, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he did not plan to bring further indictments in the case. But the questions still echo that Fitzgerald asked in his final remarks to the jury: “What is this case about? Is it about something bigger?”

Let this editorial stand as an example between US-normal clear thinking folk, and THEM. Those who live in the (non) reality based community, on the left, who are forever seeking evidence that Bush and Cheney purposely outed the super secret yet well known name of Joe Wilson’s wife and her occupation. Always looking for something bigger, the Globe and most MSM outlets fuel the far left netnuts and others.

Rick Moran- a member of the group known as US, writes:

You see, by the time the editorial appeared on July 6, 2003, Joe Wilson knew full well that no one in the Administration had been briefed on his Niger trip. He also knew that some of the information he returned with actually confirmed (according to CIA analysts) that Saddam had made some attempts to acquire yellowcake uranium from that country in 1999. He knew that the impetus for the trip did not originate with the Vice President’s office (although Cheney did ask the CIA about the reports of uranium sales that appeared in another intelligence report) but rather with the Counterproliferation Division at the CIA. How did he know this? He was married to a woman who worked in that division.

Then there were the faked memos about Saddam’s efforts to buy uranium from Niger that Wilson bragged he had spotted as forgeries before the government did – except he didn’t see them until after the government had already dismissed them as phonies.

This is a long and winding tale of epic proportions when we consider how much time, money and effort has been put forth to go after someone, ANYONE, connected with the White House who might have leaked the name of Wilson’s wife, she who worked for the CIA. Paranoid people-like those on the far left- will dig endless pits to find a gem that doesn’t exist. They live in a world full of mistrust and secret plots to oust spies and other James Bond hyperbole.

These are facts you’ll never see in The Narrative. Instead, The Narrative tells the story of a White House who buried Heroic Joe’s report and denied it even existed to the “lapdog” press all so that they could continue their mad dash to war. The Narrative also tells the story of Heroic Joe the whistleblower, making a nuisance of himself in official Washington, going from department to department begging people to listen to him about the Administration’s twisting his intelligence on Niger to justify going to war.

Joe the Hero? More like Joe the unknown who wanted to make a name for himself. I believe this is what he is all about. An aging bureaucrat who wanted to rejuvenate his stagnant career. Did he get what he wanted? Depends upon which world you chose to live in…

Prosecutor Fitzgerald says there will be no more indictments. It took him more than 3 years, thousands of hours of grand jury testimony, thousands of more hours of FBI interviews as well as an unknown number of hours involving interviews of the principals with his staff to come up with Libby’s 3 lies to the Feds and the grand jury. No Karl Rove being frog marched to the jailhouse. No Dick Cheney being led away from the White House in handcuffs. No President Bush being impeached (for this incident anyway). All the fantasies of the netnuts regarding the Administration and what Fitzgerald was going to uncover shown to be the illusions of obsessive paranoids whose hatred of this President and his policies has led them into a deranged mental state.

I’m tired of these freaks living in this state of existence. They need professional help; it’s costing me and every other American a lot of money. We have so many more important issues to deal with; wasting resources and time on investigations and trials based on one man’s true fantasies of fame and fortune, Mr. Wilson, is much more of a crime than anything Scooter Libby did.