Hollywood perpetuates the Wilson-Plame lie

Of course now that their guy is in power, it's time for Wapo to acknowledge the truth:  Wilson and Plame lied through their teeth and the entire 'controversy' was a put up designed to smear President Bush and score points for liberal politicians.

We certainly hope that is not the case. In fact, "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post's Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.


The movie portrays Mr. Wilson as a whistle-blower who debunked a Bush administration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, an investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found that Mr. Wilson's reporting did not affect the intelligence community's view on the matter, and an official British investigationfound that President George W. Bush's statement in a State of the Union address that Britain believed that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger was well-founded.
"Fair Game" also resells the couple's story that Ms. Plame's exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy - but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.

It's a pity the Wapooties couldn't tell the truth when it would have mattered - you know, at the start of the 'scandal' before tens of millions were spent, the administration was distracted from their jobs and careers were destroyed (except for the liars Wilson and Plame who have made millions).  Of course that is known as integrity, a substance unrecognizable to our political elites.