Rush not to judgment, lest ye be rushed...

Buckethead Buckethead

Or something. Drudge has linked to an article by Clifford May in the National review online, which suggests that the fact that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA was not exactly, well, secret. If this is the case, then there was no "outing" of a CIA agent, and therefore no treason and no reason for getting our collective panties in a bunch.

Remember that the primary focus of this is still the uraniumgate pseudo-scandal, and that the British still insist that their intelligence was correct, and that Saddam was trying to buy Uranium somewhere in Africa. Also, Wilson, by his own admission, spent several days drinking mint tea and talking to people, and on the basis of this thorough investigation concluded that Saddam wasn't trying to get the fissionable materials. It sounds as if Wilson, who was a vocal opponent of the administration before his mission, was doing a decent job of discrediting himself before any of this happened, which makes you wonder why someone like Karl Rove would go to this effort to do it himself. If Karl Rove is the satanically brilliant Machiavel with his hand working the strings controlling marionette Bush, why would he be so stupid as to commit an easily discovered treasonous act? We have a problem with conflicting conspiracy modes.

Unless I hear a lot more evidence, or at least a significant amount of convincing evidence, this goes into my unlikely at best folder. It tastes a lot like the BUSH LIED!!! story we've been hearing so much of lately.

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Uh, no B, the primary focus is NOT Uranium. It's about whether two senior administration deliberately outed a covert agent to punish her husband, and to chill any future criticism from people who might have similar notions.

I personally don't think Rove did it. I think it's a couple of people lower down who got a little too ahead of themselves.

I can't for the life of me understand why the administration response so far has been "We've not going to do a thing."

Congratulations on finding the ONE article in the blogosphere that tries to put a positive spin on this. The rest of the RBlogs are in a wait-and-see. Some of them are pretty pissed (like, say, Dreznor).

So let's wait and see.

Ross Ross

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Well, Ross, it was linked on Drudge... I didn't work to hard to find it. I myself am in wait and see mode. If it turns out that this story has real legs, not prosthetics, I will be ready to cry foul, and demand that heads roll - if it comes to that. I am not convinced, yet, that it will.

There are many aspects of this story that ring false - Johno linked to some guy, can't remember who, who was all exercised about this a while back. It just doesn't scan.

I waited on the Clinton thing too - I was predisposed to dislike him, and think the worst, sure - given the bimbo eruptions that had been happening since '92. But when all the real evidence came out, like the dress, it became clear that something bad had happened.

The Bush administration hates leaks. Which makes it seem a strange way for them to go after someone, if they were going to do it. I don't know, but I'm not going to run around screaming. There's a war on, after all.

Buckethead Buckethead

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But you're only ready to cry foul if the story actually makes Bush look bad in the press? the difference between now and then is that back then, it was one story from Novak, and it got swept under the rug. Now, the Post finds someone else who says that they called no less than SIX reporters, looking for someone who would print what they knew was a leak of career-ending, secret information. It stopped being a fluke or non-existent, and turned into a much more verifiable problem.

David Corn wrote the initial articles, way back when...and was ignored.

Hmm.

I can't think of a better place to start than Dreznor -- he links to all the good stuff.

[url=http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/000767.html]http://www.danieldrez…]

Ross Ross

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