David Corn continues his rewrite of the Plame Game by (just in case we didn’t fully understand) Valerie Plame’s NO status at Desk Jockey U. Giving us a peek at his comedy, Humor….I mean, “Hubris”:

“Valerie Wilson was no analyst or paper-pusher. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration. Armitage, Rove and Libby had revealed information about a CIA officer who had searched for proof of the President’s case. In doing so, they harmed her career and put at risk operations she had worked on and foreign agents and sources she had handled.”

Thank you Corn, but no sale. Short of helping Wilson pack his bags for Niger, Corn is the one of the prime architects of the Plame Game. In fact it was he who suggested that the Plame’s outing was a dirty deed by the Bush/Cheney cabal. Hell he convinced co-conspirator Senator Chuck Schumer to put Wilson under his wing and call for the bogus multi-million dollar boondoggle we’ve witnessed over the last two years.

Corn even tries to rehash the already debunked and ridiculous assertain that Valerie never suggested hubby for the trip to Niger.

“Another issue was whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there. Hubris contains new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. In an interview with the authors, Douglas Rohn, a State Department officer who wrote a crucial memo related to the trip, acknowledges he may have inadvertently created a misimpression that her involvement was more significant than it had been.”

Right.

Fact is that Corn has been nothing more than an overpaid Jason Leopold through this whole farce and indeed most likely got his leads from one and the same.

I’ll hand the rest over to Tom McGuire who does a nice job of given Corn a powder. Tom nails Corn here:

“Please – Ms. Plame was head of the JTFI Ops group, had proposed her husband for his 1999 trip to Niger, but was not involved here? Well, then, why does Libby’s indictment include this:

7. On or about June 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke with a senior officer of the CIA to ask about the origin and circumstances of Wilson’s trip, and was advised by the CIA officer that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA and was believed to be responsible for sending Wilson on the trip.”

Ah Tom, why would you want to go and use facts on David, you’ll make his head explode and he’ll slap Andrew Sullivan or something like that!