I'm trying to wrap my brain around this. It seems that the main reason for the leak of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative was, if you hear the Bush administration apologists tell it, to show that Joe Wilson was probably sent to Niger by partisan anti-war supporters. Not as payback for exposing the truth. So to show how partisan a former ambassador is the White House has to commit a crime? None of this, of course, makes any reference to the truth. So we are supposed to believe that the truth is partisan. Think about that. For telling the truth this man and his family were put in danger because he told the truth. The president lies, the truth is told and the president endangers that persons family. I guess Mike Malloy calling them the "Bush Crime Family" is not so far off? This seems like something the Corleones would do. So what do we make of this. Well let's look at Bob Novak's history, Novak Leak Column Has Familiar Sound . Looks to me like Bob has made a living out of this sort of thing. See what former CIA officials think about all of this, A Sense of Betrayal. Two more things on this subject, a little perspective, New Watergate Soaks White House and from the Center for American Progress, a liberal attempt at a think tank, they show how the "Bush Crime Family" gets even. "Intimigate" Scandal at the White House. Here is an explanation of this document:

The Center for American Progress has released the attached is a one-page document detailing ?“Intimigate?”, the White House?’s latest scandal. As the document shows, the White House has developed a pattern of firing, intimidating and defaming anyone who has had the courage to tell the truth about Iraq. In fact, the Iraq policymakers whose influence has grown in the White House are largely those who parsed and distorted intelligence and misled the American people.

Sorry I had to add this one, Outing a CIA operative? Rules call for special counsel.

And so it goes. 3 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq.

It seems the press is still focusing on the bad in Iraq. Baghdad in Turmoil With Protests, Attack.

Go to Off The Kuff for your Texas redistricting news. I appears Tom DeLay was at the capitol yesterday.

The questions from Michael Moore yesterday were an extract from his new book, Dude, Where's My Country? That was the second installment of three in a series. I link all three installments below:
-The first installment in two parts: How to talk to your conservative brother-in-law and How to talk to your conservative brother-in-law (part two).
-Second installment: Answers please, Mr Bush.
-Third installment: Face it, you'll never be rich .
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 8:16 AM