During the Bush administration the liberal left and the main stream media went absolutely nuts because Valerie Plame was supposedly exposed as a CIA agent.   Releasing the name of a CIA clandestine officer is a felony.  A special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed because of the seriousness of the allegation.  Fitzgerald soon learned that Valerie Plame was not a clandestine CIA officer at all, so there was no potential for a crime.  He also learned that the true source of the leak was Richard Armitage, a State Department official.  But the left were not interested in pursuing Richard Armitage because he had been openly opposed to the Iraq war.  What’s a special prosecutor to do?   Easy, Fitzgerald continued his investigation of a non-crime and eventually caught “Scooter” Libby in a perjury trap.  Libby remembered a conversation differently than Matthew Cooper about something that didn’t actually matter.  As a result he was convicted of a felony and sentenced to prison.  George W. Bush commuted his sentence, but Libby remains a convicted felon unable to practice law.

Now we have the all too real release of the name of an actual clandestine CIA officer.  This is not just any officer; this was our Station Chief in Afghanistan.  The White House accidentally released his name to reporters who promptly sent that list around the world.   Then, to compound the error, the White House submitted a substitute list, with just this guy’s name missing, to make sure that none of our enemies would miss the opportunity.  At best the person who did this was criminally negligent.  At worst……

There should be a special prosecutor appointed immediately to investigate.  This special prosecutor should start interviewing top Obama administration officials under oath.  Odds are very high that this special prosecutor will find a lot more important things than “Scooter Libby” getting confused over where he heard information that didn’t matter about Valerie Plame who wasn’t clandestine and who also didn’t matter.

Of course none of this will happen.  In the minds of a liberal, a felony is only a felony when it is done by a Democrat.  That is why fat cat Democrats get caught channeling millions in illegal contributions to Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and no one cares.  But Dinesh D’Souza gets caught giving $20,000 in a failed Senatorial campaign and the DOJ considers it to be the crime of the century.

If this does not bother you than you are probably a liberal, but then you probably don’t believe me anyway, because you still know in your heart of hearts that Cheney is an evil man.

TDM