More on Plame's Deep Cover

Brit Hume is reporting that everyone's favorite opportunist, Joe Wilson, is said to have been blabbing that his wife was CIA long before the "leak." Wilson's lawyers are demanding that the person who says this, retired army general and Fox News contributor Paul Vallely, issue a retraction and an apology.

Clearly if Wilson has his lawyers working on this, he either trying to protect himself from criminal indictment or from financial loss. In the latter case, he needs to protect his credibility for the book that he's writing, which would be no surprise. In the former case, he thinks there's enough credibility to the allegation that he might be hoist by his own petard and eventually serving a sentence with Scooter Libby as cellmate.

But let's get real about all of this. Valerie drove the family Saab to Langley every day. This is not Maxwell Smart walking through multiple secret passages, dialing a secret number in a concealed public phone booth and dropping through a trap door. She had as much cover as Gypsy Rose Lee.

As long as the left has nothing in its arsenal except the criminalization of policy differences, we'll be treated to spectacles like this one.