So far the only thing the Valerie Plame scandal proves is that Washington D.C. is an incestuous club where politics, policy and news are freely mixed in battles over minutia. I can't see any innocents here or victims. Wilson and Plame aren't very good victims, having themselves used inside position and information to argue policy. Scooter Libby isn't a very good villain, standing accused of different recollections of conversations with reporters than the reporters recall. Of course no one ever read a newspaper interview and said, "I never said that!" There is even less clarity here than in the Whitewater Monica debacle (if that is possible). Democrats and Republicans should by now be equally convinced that independent prosecutors are a bad idea. Shouldn't we be focused on bigger issues like winning the war or rebuilding Louisiana and Mississippi? Democrats are wrong to think this is evidence of corruption. Republicans are wrong to think this demonstrates competence. Both parties are focused on politics and not forward looking results. The City of Incest is focused on the wrong thing.