Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, in opining about Friday's indictment, goes a little bit too far in the first three paragraphs:

KNOCK, KNOCK, who's there?

Dick Cheney.

If you are President George W. Bush, you do not want to open that door. On the other side stands the vice president, who outed CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson to his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Libby is (or, rather, was) on the National Security Council, and as this week's TIME makes clear, received his own daily CIA briefing. Libby had every legal clearance to know Valerie Plame's identity, and Vice President Cheney did nothing wrong in sharing that information with Libby.

Now, if the Vice President told Libby so that Libby could leak the information to reporters, or directed Libby to leak Plame's name, that's a different kettle of rotting fish. But Libby was cleared to know Plame's job, and neither the Vice President nor anyone else who also had that clearance did anything wrong by discussing it with Libby.

If opponents of the administration spend time complaining about things that aren't legal, it muddies the message about the administration's plainly illegal activities. Keep your eyes on the prize.