Abu Wabu

Still nothing but bad news from the Fitzgerald investigation for all the Bush-haters. First Fitz' erroneous filing sends the idiots and their MSM friends riding off in all directions with fresh lies, as Stephen Spruill reports:

Plame-watcher Tom Maguire analyzes the Libby team's response to Patrick Fitzgerald's filing last week. As you might recall, that filing led to an avalanche of stories about its revelation that President Bush authorized Libby to talk to reporters about parts of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate. A misquote in that filing also led reporters to allege that Bush and Cheney told Libby to lie to the press. Fitzgerald corrected the misquote two nights ago in a letter to the judge. Some news organizations have followed up with their own corrections. Some are too busy getting other facts wrong.

And what does the NYT do with the Fitz revision? It buries it on Page A17 after blaring the initial, false allegation from Page A1. No change there.

Byron York has the Big Nut today, and concludes:

Libby's new filing, and the Fitzgerald filing that preceded it, suggest that the CIA leak case, if Libby goes to trial, will move far beyond the issue of Valerie Wilson. Fitzgerald's discussion of the National Intelligence Estimate and of the administration's general response to Joseph Wilson, Libby argues, "indicates that at trial all aspects of the government's response to Mr. Wilson will be relevant — including any actions taken by the President." If that is the case, then the trial, which Fitzgerald has said will be a limited criminal inquiry into whether Lewis Libby lied, will more resemble a broad inquiry into the politics of pre-war intelligence.

Wilson, Plame, the MSM, the idiot left: what a bunch of dunces. Either Libby will have his day in court and all the idiots will wind up with egg on their faces, or the Fitz case will die on the vine because the government doesn't want to give up real classified material, not the brightly-colored pretend-stuff Joe and Valerie like to play with.