Hehe...yeah, I'll second that!
what is Eric ranting about
Novak "destroying" two "patriotic" servants of the US
right first Plame recommends her husband for the job because she is part of the CIA cabal that doesn't favour going to war in Iraq or just doesn't like the Bush White House and knows he'll do a nice whitewash
I would give Plame however the benefit of the doubt that she as a patriotic servant, but Joe Wilson, please, his shameless use of the Niger controversy which was a non controversy as far as I am concerned to plug his book, the fact Bush was vindicated by both the UK's own probe into the Niger matter [the Bush administration should have never backed down - the reality is the British always had independent evidence of the Niger claim, independent
from the forged documents and guess what, Joe Wilson's own report to the CIA backed it up too, hee hee as the US Senate Intelligence Committee found that Mr. Wilson hadn't exactly told the whole truth and nothing about his little jaunt to Niger to sip tea with Niger officials whist he was flogging his book and accusing Karl Rove of nefarious doings.....ergo Wilson destroyed himself.....
the fact he and the wifey did a photo spread for Vanity Fair makes me wonder just how afraid they were for their safety, or flogging Wilson's book was just more important I imagine
Novak said a few days after the controversial column that the fact Plame was CIA agent was the worst kept secret in Washington, I recall some other Washington columnists backed Novak up....so maybe there was no crime committed at all because there was no intent to expose Plame because she and her husband had already let the secret leak!
I have wondered though why Novak isn't sitting facing contempt charges himself along with the NY Times reporters unless he revealed his source and co-operated....