Scooter Libbey Indicted

PressRelease.

Indictment

Five counts: 1 on obstruction of Justice; 2 on false statements to the FBI; 2 of perjury before the grand jury. All for the same thing: statments that he had found out that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA from reporters, when he had actually found out from the State Department and other government officials (including Karl Rove?) and had himself already told Judy Miller.

Surpise surprise: There is no allegation that he broke the law in disclosing her identity.

I don't know. I guess we can't let stuff like this slide. But it somehow it just feels wrong to "get" people for stuff like this. What difference does it make where he heard it from, since it has seemed clear from the outset that there was not going to be any eveidence that he knew she was a covert operative. And, absent such knowledge, the outing was not an indictable offense.

Now, if being stupid were a crime, then Scooter really would be well-charged. How dumb can you possibly be? Do these people lie so much that they forget how to tell the truth, even when they know (or should know) that the lie will be uncovered?