Joe Wilson speaks out

Well, it seems Joseph Wilson gave a speech Monday as reported in an article entitled, "Joe Wilson bashes journalist who leaked wife's secret identity". Here's part of what it says:

During Monday's speech in the Hinckley Caucus Room, Joe Wilson said, per his wife's request, he no longer refers to Bob Novak as a "douche bag."

Novak identified Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, as a CIA operative in a 2003 column, beginning an investigation into who leaked her name.

Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has since been indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice."

Bob Novak is not in jail because he sang like a canary to the Grand Jury," Wilson said. "He is a denizen of the deep who crumbled like a cookie."

However, Wilson said Novak is a small fry in the grand scheme of things who was only doing someone else's bidding.

I wonder if and when we're ever going to find out who was really responsible for the outing of Valerie Plame. In my mind that was an act of treason. But, of course, the mainstream press has, for the most part, forgotten about it. If mainstream reporters were doing their job they would be holding this in front of us constantly - whether there's "news" about it or not. (There's always someone willing to comment about it. And whatever happened to investigative journalism, anyway?) But the American public can easily be lulled to sleep again when the press just ignores important issues.