Matthews, Mitchell, and O’Beirne combined for Plame misinformation triple-team

On Hardball, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell wrongly asserted that Valerie Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, claimed that Vice President Cheney "dispatched" him to Niger; Chris Matthews stated as fact the disputed claim that Plame "suggested her husband for the mission" ; and National Review Washington editor Kate O'Beirne confused two statutes that may have been violated when Plame's identity was leaked to the press -- the 1917 Espionage Act and the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act." Read more »