Plame name blame game

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/141956_wilsoned.html

Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., insists that Attorney General John Ashcroft appoint a special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case -- and rightly so.

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Sunday, The Washington Post said that White House officials had contacted six Washington reporters to disclose Plame's CIA identity. The presumed motive was retaliation for Wilson's claim that the Niger uranium connection Bush cited as justification for the Iraq war was bogus-- something the White House later conceded.

Republicans called for a special prosecutor nearly every time a paper clip was out of place in the Clinton White House. The allegations in this case reach to matters of national security and criminal acts and deserve vigorous, independent investigation.