First item–Hurricane Wilma is tearing across Florida. Hang in there, Florida!

Second item — some guy named Ben Bernanke has been tagged to succeed Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman. I know absolutely nothing about Bernanke, but Brad DeLong says he’s a good choice. I’ll post other comments from people who know stuff about economics as soon as I find some.

Third item–tonight Patrick Fitzgerald is makin’ a list and checkin’ it twice. Pretty soon we’ll find out who’s naughty and who’s nice.

As I keyboard some guy on MSNBC is saying that Libby and Rove have bothed been advised they are in “legal jeopardy.” I think we may have heard that already.

Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story have posted what they call a more detailed account of how Valerie Plame was uncovered.

Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on loan from the office of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in June 2003 and told Libby that Plame set up the Wilson trip. He asserted that it was a boondoggle, the sources said.

Libby then shared the information with Karl Rove, President Bush’s deputy chief of staff, the sources said. Wurmser also passed on the same information about Wilson to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, they added.

The “boondoggle” claim was bogus, of course, but it is significant because tracing how that story was spread could have provided some solid evidence into a conspiracy and who might have been part of it. Be sure to read all of the Raw Story report for the juicy details.

More proof the Apocalypse is at hand–A diarist of RedState.Org named reddstaty posted a suggestion that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby should resign no matter what; should have resigned already, in fact.

Karl Rove and Scooter Libby should both resign immediately. In fact, they should have both resigned as soon as the identity of Plame passed from their lips to the reporters they were speaking to.

It is by now pretty obvious that both Rove and Libby passed Plame’s identity to reporters (Rove to Matt Cooper and Libby to Judith Miller; we apparently still don’t know who passed it on to Bob Novak and others), knowing that it was highly likely to be printed in national newspapers and magazines (if not guaranteed, if they told enough people).

It is also pretty obvious that she was an undercover agent who was entitled to not have her identity splashed all over the pages of a national newspaper. If she was not under some kind of cover, it is not likely that the CIA would have forwarded the investigation to the DOJ, that the DOJ would have pursued the investigation as long as they did, and that the judges overseeing Fitzgerald would have allowed him to expand his investigation as quickly as they did (that is, if she wasn’t undercover, this investigation would have ended long ago).

This means that Rove and Libby outed an undercover CIA agent.

I’m sure the last thing reddstaty needs is approval from me. Commenters are giving him a hard enough time already. But I was moved. And notice the commenters can’t address specific facts, especially “If she was not under some kind of cover, it is not likely that the CIA would have forwarded the investigation to the DOJ, that the DOJ would have pursued the investigation as long as they did, and that the judges overseeing Fitzgerald would have allowed him to expand his investigation as quickly as they did.” Of course if the CIA would not have pursued this case unless the CIA believed someone had done something wrong. Makes sense.

Anyway–best antidote to the nonsense coming from the clueless rightie commenters–Media Matters Plame FAQ and the Think Progress Right-Wing Plame Myth page.