Outing Plame was easy so it can't be illegal

With a tenuous hold on legality -- and discretion -- a "senior correspondent" at the Chicago Tribune found that it was pretty easy to burrow into Valerie Plame's professional life and publicize it.  You just had to have a computer and a pit bull's sense of right and wrong.  Helpfully, he exposes Plame, step by step.

So, you know, anyone (like Scooter Libby) who allegedly outed her wasn't really doing anything prosecutable.  No way.  Any nerd could have done it.  But it took a Chicago Tribune to pay for it and print it.  Chicago.  Patrick Fitzgerald, local fella, crusading prosecutor.  Connection there?

The name on the article is, perhaps appropriately, Crewdson. 

Comments

[ken melvin]

What need for the law?

[PW]

That's so's you pay your taxes, Ken, and stand back as the Presidente passes.