AFTER THE LIBBY VERDICT: James Taranto lists some of the facts that remain clear:

• On his trip to Niger, Wilson found no evidence that contradicted the famous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, contrary to his New York Times op-ed claim.
  
  
• Plame, his wife, who worked for the CIA, did recommend him for the Niger junket, contrary to Wilson's denials.
  
  
• Plame was not a covert agent under the definition of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, contrary to Wilson's insinuations, which many of his backers, including in the press, presented as fact.
  
  
• No one from the White House "leaked" Plame's identity as a CIA functionary to Robert Novak, who received the information from Richard Armitage at the State Department.

When Fitzgerald began the case, in 2003, no one had committed any crime in connection with the kerfuffle, and that was fairly easy to ascertain, given that Plame was not a covert agent and Armitage had already owned up to the so-called leak.

How many of the facts will make it into the movie?

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