[defenderSD]

Yeah, that phrase "double super secret background" is very strange and doesn't sound like something a real journalist would actually use in an email. Do we have another journalistic fabrication here, similar to the phony Bush national guard papers? We'll just have to wait and see. We all know how desperately liberals want to take down Karl Rove.

[Hardastarboard]

We all know how desperately liberals want to take down Karl Rove.

Or just create the next phony "scandal" to prevent Bush from getting his agenda through. It's a very clever form of obstructionism.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

Yeah, that phrase "double super secret background" is very strange and doesn't sound like something a real journalist would actually use

And isn't the CIA Director the "DCI" - for "Director of Central Intelligence?"

[ReignOfError]

Yeah, that phrase "double super secret background" is very strange and doesn't sound like something a real journalist would actually use in an email.

Real journalists are -- you might want to sit down for this -- capable of making a joke. The terms "background" and "off the record" cover a lot of ground, and "double super secret background" effectively communicates that this is info offered on the deepest level of background.

[cricket]

A little strange that e-mails discussing 'super secrets' - much less double super secrets - (ala pre-adolescents playing with a code ring. . .) would be the choice of communication here. .

Nonetheless, see nothing here that assigns blame to KR.

[cricket]

A little strange that e-mails discussing 'super secrets' - much less double super secrets - (ala pre-adolescents playing with a code ring. . .) would be the choice of communication here. .

Nonetheless, see nothing here that assigns blame to KR.