ID'd any spies lately? 

ID'd any spies lately?

So much disinformation and so many lies to keep up with, I'm afraid I may have missed something important. Has anybody heard any news of the Justice Department's investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame? They've been on the case, what, two and a half, three months now? Surely they have uncovered something by now. Perhaps Novak was just lying. Maybe he got his information somewhere else, but because of his notorious antipathy toward the Bush White House he fingered anonymous senior officials there. If that's not it, how hard could it be? It has been noted by many that there are relatively few "senior officials," so, since they are such a trustworthy lot, a few direct questions to each of them should resolve this in no time.

Okay, we no that none of this isn't going to happen. We know that there really is no serious investigation into this matter and that even if there were the White House would stonewall and outright lie about it. My question is, why isn't this a story? Why isn't the lack of an investigation, the lack of any development here a story for the press to cover? This is an administration and a political party (the two are no longer distinguishable) that trumpets itself as being the stronger on national security measures and this whole story is just one of many (shall we speak of security at chemical and nuclear plants?)that exposes that as a huge lie. Why, after a steady diet of lies from this administration since Bush's campaign for office was launched more than 4 years ago, does the press still eat it all up (witness the Thanksgiving incident in which AF1 was allegedly spotted in air on its way to Iraq by a British Airways pilot, something British Airways denies occurred), printing as fact whatever the White House says?