A Libby Primer

There has been a lot of talk this week regarding special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Scooter "Fall Guy" Libby, and the whole CIA leak investigation. If you need to catch up, or if you need a good primer, Murray Waas has a great piece up on the Huffington Post. I would also recommend following all the links included with the Waas post. Go to his personal blog, Whatever Already. Go to his National Review article. Just go, because Waas is that good.

And now that you have been Scooter primed, the NYT has more revelations.

Update: Newsweek has made official what we all on the left have argued all along.

Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion.

For an administration that prides itself on national security, outing a covert CIA agent just doesn't seem like the most prudent of moves, but that's just me. I am a bit biased.