Rep. Henry Waxman D-CA, released a fact sheet the other day outlining the evidence for eleven different leaks of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as an undercover agent for the CIA. It's now becoming obvious that this was no "slip of the tongue," but a concerted effort to strike back at Joe Wilson (through his wife) for calling the administration a liar on the Saddam Hussein/yellowcake uranium/Niger connection.

That persons at the top of the administration would deliberately reveal the identity of a CIA agent with no official cover, putting her life and the lives of her overseas networks of contacts in extreme danger as well as killing off an information-gathering operation on weapons of mass destruction, simply beggars the imagination.

And then we are treated to the spectacle of a New York Times reporter jailed for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury as a witness to a crime. Considering Miller's sorry record as a shill for Cheney and Chalabi during the buildup for the invasion of Iraq, we believe that Miller is refusing to testify not because of any misguided notion of journalistic privilege but because she doesn't want to be faced with the choice of taking the Fifth Amendment or going to jail for conspiracy. We also think that she's probably terrified at what the thugs in power could and would do to her if she talked.

As the saying goes, when you lie down with dogs you rise up with fleas.