Disappointing

Nobody, not Judy Miller, Scooter Libby, Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, the lawyers, nobody comes out of this looking good. The story's simply a narrative of who did what, when and why. No blockbuster revelations we could discern -- a reporter's inability to get someone's name right or spell it correctly is not news to anyone who's ever worked as an editor. But it does call into question Libby's assertion that he never mentioned the name of Joe Wilson's wife -- how else did it (or some variation of it) find its way into Miller's notes?

Miller says, in her sidebar, that it was in a different part of her notebook from her notes from meeting with Libby. As she describes her testimony, it's hard to say she incriminated Libby. The name Karl Rove never appears, conspicuously. So maybe her exoneration of Libby implicates Rove as the source who named Plame. Who knows.

I'll find and link to more informed analysis later.