I agree with you regarding this latest instance of Hiatt emerging from his spider hole for another “pronouncement.” He is grasping for some way to justify his (and Donald Graham’s) support for the invasion of Iraq as it becomes more evident with each passing day that the whole contrived affair is the absolute worst failure of foreign policy in this country’s history. The seminal charge in this so-called editorial that

“… one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House — that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame’s identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson — is untrue…”

is not supported in his soliloquy, which does not include a single fact to support his assertion.

Anyone who has a passing knowledge of the White House Leak knows the basic facts that you detailed above. As an aside, why do people/media keep referring to this criminal activity as “the CIA leak case?” This is entirely a “White House Leak.”

(EPU’d but OT, I believe)

This is your brain on Republican Logic:

Ed Rollins on CNN just now:

The problem with Democrats is, A, there is not a consistent message; and equally important, anyone who wants to be independent and think beyond the box that you’re trying to put yourself in, whether it’s Hillary or Lieberman, they get slapped aside.

So, the problem with Democrats is that they are not consistent and they slap inconsistency aside.

Just a couple of it’s conclusions…

“(U) Conclusion 12. Until October 2002 when the Intelligence Community obtained the forged foreign language documents9 on the Iraq-Niger uranium deal, it was reasonable for analysts to assess that Iraq may have been seeking uranium from Africa based on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reporting and other available intelligence.”

“Conclusion 13. The report on the former ambassador’s trip to Niger, disseminated in March 2002, did not change any analysts’ assessments of the Iraq-Niger uranium deal. For most analysts, the information in the report lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal, but State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) analysts believed that the report supported their assessment that Niger was unlikely to be willing or able to sell uranium to Iraq.”

The report paints Mr. Wilson at best uninformed and at worst a liar.

I read Mr. Wilson’s op-ed in the WSJ the day it came out and was originally pissed. Now that as much truth as the general public gets is out there (Armitage), and the subject is now full circle to what brought me to your site, I am compelled to write something.

love that pea soup!

You can google for his blog if you like. I won’t link to it, because it is vile.

Yes, he wrote a dictionary, but while it started with a respectable list, he added lots of words like “anti-idiotarian” (you see, according to his ilk we all are “idiotarians”) and gave everything a right-wing slant.

I repeat: no progressive should use the term “fisking”.