I’m already hearing this spin, over and over, from talking heads across the dial: because there’s no indictment on the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act, obviously no crimes fitting those statutes were committed.

Rubbish.

Good prosecutors are sometimes careful to prosecute only slam-dunk charges, and Patrick Fitzgerald is one of the best; that doesn’t mean other crimes weren’t committed.

The GOP spin equates to claiming that just because Al Capone was only nailed on tax evasion, therefore he was never a mob boss, and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre simply never happened.

PS — Fox anchor Bill Hemmer has also already repeated the absolute falsehood that
sending Joe Wilson to Niger was his wife’s idea.  But that’s Fox.