Joe Wilson and Valerie Plane No secrets What Gives?

Valerie Plane had not been undercover for six or seven years. She was a glorified secretary for the C,I.A., or to be more polite a file clerk. Her job was basically a Bob Cratchitt, hardly a vital cog in the undercover world who needed to worry about secrecy. Besides her half-wit hubby Joe Wilson had been spending his time in Washingtong bragging about his "CIA wife" to anyone unlucky enough to get stuck listening to him. After establishing that there was no crime in so-called "outing" of the identification of this CIA agent special investigator Fitzgerald then has to make a stretch of imagination to come up some kind of charge he can fool a grand jury with. After all he's making a peripheral charge upon an action that has already been established to not have been a crime in the first place.

But Ronnie Earl got indictments under similar circumstances. If it it worked in Texas it ought to work in the Federal court too? Oh, but wait a minute, that was only indictments, it hasn't worked in Texas yet and all indications are the indictments aren't worth the paper they were printed on. That would appear to be the case against Mr. Libby.