Joseph C. Wilson: Our 27 months of hell. Wilson is the husband of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Valerie was an innocent in this whole affair. Although there were suggestions that she was behind the decision to send me to Niger, the CIA told Newsday just a week after the Novak article appeared that "she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment." The CIA repeated the same statement to every reporter thereafter.

I pull that quote out because "his wife sent him" is even now being repeated as truth (Fox News' Tony Snow was still saying it Friday night on Bill Maher's show).

But both these pieces deserve reading in their entireties. They're the words of the principles in this case.

Matthew Cooper, Time Magazine: What Scooter Libby And I Talked About