This is an incredible piece of wishful thinking, spin, and rationalization from conservative blogger Tom McGuire at Just One Minute.

McGuire starts his story by quoting from the "always interesting, sometimes accurate" (McGuire’s words) WorldNetDaily.  You know you are in for a treat when the basis for a wingnut post starts out with WorldNetDaily (heck, even McGuire acknowledges that the online "news" service has questionable accuracy).

Anyway, the thrust of the post relates to a retired Army General named Paul Vallely, who came out yesterday and claimed that, back in spring 2002, Joseph Wilson told him that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.  This conversation supposedly took place in a Fox News green room.

McGuire notes one problem with Vallely’s story: Wilson and Vallely couldn’t have met in the spring of 2002, since neither appeared on Fox on the same day.  Not until September 2002.

So, one might conclude that Vallely is either (1) lying about the whole thing, or (to be more generous) (2) his recollection is faulty.  After all, if Vallely doesn’t know the date, perhaps he doesn’t recall his casual conversation with Wilson accurately either.

Does McGuire reach that conclusion?  Nope.  He engages in the most amazing spin in mankind — to wit, the fact that Vallely got the date wrong actually supports the truthfulness of Vallely’s claim.  Read this:

However (here comes the spin!), like a flaw in fine leather, this sort of glitch in a minor detail actually increases the plausibility of the General’s story.  Yes it does!  Had the General been cutting this story from whole cloth, he surely would have taken the trouble to check his dates and do a bit of oppo research on Wilson, in which case, he would have said that they met in the late summer or early fall of 2002.

Yup.  According to McGuire logic, nobody can ever be caught in a lie, because all liars are good liars, and all lies successfully dupe their listeners. 

Very bizarre.

[Yes, McGuire’s meta-point is also bizarre.  His argument is that if some people know about Plame’s classified CIA status, then she was not a "covert agent".  This is not only silly, but contrary to what the laws and statutes say.  In other words, things do not become "declassified" simply because some people know — or think they know — about it.]