The Plame Game

AJ Strata, who's been quite active on Able Danger and other national security issues, offers up that Fitzgerald and the Plame Grand Jury are going to make the MSM wish they never called for a grand jury in the first place. He thinks, based on the work of MacMind (who happens to disagree with some of Strata's work on Able Danger), that Wilson and Plame themselves are going to be the focus of whatever Fitzgerald comes up with - not anyone in the Bush Administration or Rove.

This is something to definitely keep an eye on.

UPDATE:
I might as well include the links to both the MacsMind piece, which posits that Wilson is going to be the one left standing when the music stops:

Joe Wilson and his co-horts necks in the most elaborate scheme ever devised against an Administration, is in fact tightening.

More will be coming in the next couple of days. The key is a familiar part of the story that has been before us all along:

From the Washington Post story recounting the Senate Report that began to knock down Wilson's house of cards last year:

"The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong."

He's not the only one who thought that Wilson or Plame were the ones who broke the law and would end up doing the perp walk for the whole mess. In fact I gave the odds:

Joe Wilson. even odds.. Husband to Valerie Plame - the guy is a blabbermouth and a media whore who has political reasons to reveal his wife's identity even though most of Washington knew she worked for the CIA. His stories about the trip to Niger have become lost in the mix - and his lies about his findings and who sent him are worthy of a novel (oh yes, there's a book by Wilson as well).

Valerie Plame. 4-1. She's the individual whose name causes this whole mess. She could have revealed herself to the media simply because she wanted to support her husband's anti-Bush positions. Works for the CIA. Last known to be stationed overseas in 1997.

Those odds are looking to be spot on at the moment.

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