Saturday, September 16, 2006
please put out the plame
I'm not sure why this thorough and forceful article was printed yesterday instead of sometime previous, but Victoria Toensing (flame-haired (heh) guest on many news shows because she's so articulate), chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee and deputy assistant attorney general during the Reagan administration, has summarized all the points about the (non)outing of Mrs Wilson, complete with who knew what and when they knew it. She leaves off a detail that seems like a rather charming (read: not charming at all) postscript to the whole thing, which is that Colin Powell, he of the recently disapproving airs, was Armitage's superior and knew all about all of this too. In the end, there are three salient points: 1. like almost everyone in national politics, the Wilsons are publicity mongers, 2. most people in political life will lie or distort almost anything if it gets them publicity and attention and/or whatever it is they want, and 3. proving #2 and #1, it's clear now that FitzGerald deliberately arranged things so that the visible facts would tell a specific story, even though he knew there were underlying facts that told a larger and different story. I'm not sure if this is important enough to warrant action against FitzGerald and the plaming Wilsons but it sure would be tempting if I were Libby or Novak.
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