Conservatives face no consequences for the people that they smear—ever.

E&P has the details:

The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an
Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and
the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he
now faces arrest for speaking to the media. Ministry spokesman Brig.
Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police
employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is
an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported
by The Associated Press.

The captain, whose full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, was one of
the sources for an AP story in late November about the burning and
shooting of six people during a sectarian attack at a Sunni
mosque…read on

So now this guy is going to be arrested because the right wing blogonuts (and Eason Jordan
who has taken up with them to get his website off the ground) have been
on a mission to intimidate the AP and other news agencies so they will
only print the touchy—feel good stories in Iraq. Go check it out
Michelle. Contact all your really good Army sources and tell us what
you come up with. And the media will continue to kowtow to them no
matter what happens. Conservatives face no consequences for the people
that they smear—ever.