[Hoot Gibson]

Valerie Plame was not a DC desk jockey...

She was based at Langley and not working covertly when career diplomat, Richard Armitage revealed her name to Robert Novak. Nobody was charged with a crime for leaking the name of a covert agent because no crime was committed. Special Counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, knew that Armitage was the leaker before he even began the investigation.

Libby was snared and $2.58 million of taxpayer money was spent investigating a leak when the source and circumstances of the leak were already known. Bush should have issued Libby a full pardon when he left office. He suffered far more punishment than Bill Clinton and Clinton lied to deny a fellow American the right to a fair trial and save his own skin.

There is no excuse for Obama not to have already named a special counsel to investigate the many leaks of classified information that have actually endangered the lives of CIA operatives, our military, and confidential informants around the world. The Plame leak was apparently unintentional and endangered no lives, yet it was a major scandal. What should be a major scandal is being swept under the rug and nobody in the media or Democratic Party seems to mind.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, should be demanding some answers herself. So should our Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta. They are not looking out for their own people.