Politics is so amusing. especially when politicians get caught breaking the law and then get caught lying about breaking the law and then lie and say they did nothing wrong. How anyone can ever trust a politician to tell the truth is beyond my comprehension.

I am shocked about Bob Woodward, though. It turns out he knew about Valerie Plame's CIA involvement all along and just kept quiet. That would be bad enough, except that he ALSO was a very vocal critic of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his investigation, which makes him look extremely bad. Like a self-serving toady, as a matter of fact. And the Washington Post is now embroiled in this mess and they are going to have to decide whther to back a reporter who has been lying and withholding information for the last year or so or come clean.

I am also amused that "Scooter" Libby thinks this gets him off the hook since now it appears maybe he wasn't the first person to blab about Valerie Plame being a CIA operative. However, his sources were the ones to make that knowledge public, which must count for something. Of course he isn't just in trouble for revealing the information; he's in trouble for lying about it. So even if he wasn't the first one to betray a covert CIA operative, he still lied about it.

Meanwhile, now we all get to wonder who it was who told Bob Woodward. We have a long list of people who the White House says it's not. But then the White House also denied that Libby and Karl Rove were involved in any way and THAT turned out to be a big fat lie. So who can believe the White House? Only really gullible people.