Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Sharks Smelling Blood

So, you’re probably saying I got it wrong a couple of days ago. Now, the buzz in the media is that Karl Rove really is the leaker of Valerie Plame’s name. And, you’re watching the sharks circle and the usual suspects of Congressional hysteria are demanding a purge.

But, have you asked the essential questions? Did Rove give Plame’s name? Was Plame a “covert operative” as alleged? Or, was she a Langley bureaucrat who was more political than analytical when it came to the Bush administration requests for intel data upon which to justify an intervention?

Today’s Wall Street Journal sustains my interpretation of a lot of this issue: Someone Agrees With Me

If Plame wasn’t covert, no harm done. If Plame’s name wasn’t released, no guilt. If Cooper wrote the email, how do we know that he really got the info he said he did from Rove? And, why did a Time correspondent wind up supplying background on this story to Newsweek?

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