[Syncro]

In the same week in July 2003 in which Bush administration officials told a syndicated columnist and a Time magazine reporter that a C.I.A. officer had initiated her husband's mission to Niger

Wow, they done writ that in stone, did they? Astounding

[D-fendr]

Anonymous sources used to be for the rarest of cases, by presidents, generals in war time.

Til the press found it useful to say whatever they wished with impunity