what the fuck is going on in the whitehouse?

For those of you who might be wondering "whats all this crap on TV about plamegate, and some republican fuckers getting indicted?"

Well first I reccomend watching this 60 minutes segment (its about 10 minutes long). You can either watch a low res version, or if you have bittorrent you can download the torrent here.
To give you the 5 second gist of situation is this: Joseph Wilson was asked to go to Africa to see if Saddamm had been making any attempts to obtain materials to create nuclear weapons from countries in Africa. Wilson discovered that "this was incredibly unlikely, and that it is almost entierly certain that Saddamm was not trying to obtain such materials."
In Bush's address to the nation when he was laying out the reasons as to why America should invade Iraq, George Bush stated that "Saddamm had obtained uranium from Niger, and had been trying to make a nuclear weapon." In response Wilson called bullshit on the president, and resigned after the speech. Wilson (who had worked for several presidents before hand, including George's father) was accusing the President of taking intelligence and altering it so that it would fit his own personal agenda (invading Iraq). In response "someone" in the White House, retaliated by outting special CIA agent Vallerie Plame, who is Wilsons wife. The "someone" it seems is Dick Cheney.

So thus, much like watergate, something that seemed like a simple crime, turns out to be awhole lot more shit. I've done a piss poor job of explaining things, but you get the general idea.
I reccomend reading THIS.

and if you think this kind of bullshit behaviour is anything new in America, you are sadly mistaken. Pretty much every American president has had grounds to be impeeched.