[STARWISE]

I meant nothing offensive about my Wolf comment, but I was picturing a neighbor "lady" with the tone and rather flowery descriptive phrases in the opening of the piece... Then when I saw it was a man, I was surprised, and I formed an opinion. I certainly could be wrong, but either way .. it was just a spontaneous comment, and not meant to be derisive.

[lugsoul]

I didn't mean that you were bashing Wolf. What I meant was that, since his piece was favorable to Wilson, and is evidence contrary to one of the standard talking points ('her neighbors knew she was in the CIA'), the bashing of Wolf is inevitable.

I don't know the real facts of Plame's employment, and no one else here does either. But, if one allows for the mere possibility that she was, in fact, covert, then the disclosure of her employment under those circumstances would be scornful, not something to be celebrated - regardless of why it was done.

I'm still amazed that no self-described conservative will acknowledge that basic truth.