LIBBY AND LIBERATION - OregonLive.com: "For anyone who missed the news from 2003 to 2006 -- and trust me, you were probably better off -- Wilson, a high-ranking career diplomat, was sent to the African country of Niger to check out reports that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire uranium there for his nuclear program. After the invasion, when it became clear that Saddam didn't, um, have a nuclear program, Wilson wrote an op-ed for The New York Times arguing that there was no way Saddam could have gotten uranium from Niger.
And then the roof fell in.
Conservative columnists, The Wall Street Journal editorial page and Fox News joined in a full-throated baying denunciation, including the revelation that Wilson's wife was an undercover CIA agent, and charging that she had arranged to have him sent to Niger as a personal boondoggle. By the time it was all over, Wilson and Plame had been vilified (and lionized), the White House declared that anyone leaking a CIA agent's identity would certainly be fired, major national reporters had been subpoenaed and a New York Times reporter had been jailed for refusing to testify -- and Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, had been convicted of four counts of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
Deeply moved by it all, President Bush commuted Libby's sentence..."
...and a traitor walked free with a presidential pardon.
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