I was just over at TPM where David Kurts wrote a short post about the most interesting thing to come out of the Plame Hearings yesterday.
The most interesting testimony in yesterday's House committee hearing on the CIA leak case came not from Valerie Plame Wilson but from James Knodell, director of the White House security office, who testified that the White House had neither undertaken an internal investigation into the leak nor taken disciplinary action against the leakers.
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We can all remember when the president stated he would fire anyone in his administration connected to leaking Ms Wilson's covert status. Of course, he did not do this. What I find interesting in Kurts' remark is James Knodell's statement to the house committee leaves the Plame leak right at the president's doorstep. If the MSM would ever do its job we might find a cloud hanging over The Oval Office as well and the Vice=President.
I realize this post painfully states the obvious, but it bares stating just the same. So many bloggers said this when the scandal broke but we never had solid evidence supporting the claim. James Knodell, under oath before the house, gives us this evidence: The president never started an investigation or disciplined those responsible because he too was involved.
It truly is heart breaking to see our democracy so badly harmed by these corrupt fools. What's worse is to watch the MSM completely ignore this as if the whole incident has ended with Libby's conviction.