I quit looking at TIME 20 years ago after their anti-RKBA cover filled with suicide pictures. Every time I get one of their little pre-paid envelopes I mail it back empty.
"But in the meantime, there is plenty of evidence of recklessness, ruthlessness and political passion that have made the search for the truth all that much harder."
(The reporter is describing Rove. In reality, yes, "the recklessness, ruthlessness and political passion" of Joe Wilson, not Karl Rove, has hurt not only the search for truth, but our national security as well.)
"When Rove assails an opponent, he believes what he's saying. And it may be his capacity for convincing himself that his adversaries are vile, corrupt, dangerous and stupid that makes the job of destroying them come so easily".
(Once again the reporter assigns liberal characteristics to Karl Rove. Aren't we certain Kennedy and Schumer believe all the venomous bile they attribute to GW Bush?)
"What was the point of Rove or anyone else bringing up Plame in the first place?"
(Such a dumb question, even for a reporter! You have to wonder, do TIME reporters not even consider the possibility that Plame's faction within the CIA wanted to do harm to the Bush Administration, that they knew Wilson would assist?)
"says a CIA analyst. "So I think there was an anger at the CIA for not getting it and not being on board. The political side of the Administration was pissed at the CIA. So I can see how they responded to that--and Wilson--by implying he couldn't be trusted because, 'well, just look where his wife works"
(Guaranteed the CIA's anger at the Bush administration was greater than the other way around. Full of dead weight, useless bureaucrats and Clinton hold-overs, the CIA had to deeply resent their abilities being called into question by Bush.)
"Furthermore, had Rove intended for Cooper to circulate any information about Wilson's wife, "he certainly would not have extracted a promise that the discussions were super double secret," Luskin notes with a laugh, referring to Cooper's phrase."
(Not to mention, if Karl Rove intended for Cooper to circulate the information, Rove would have called Cooper, not the other way around.)
"The New York Times has reported that the CIA feared that her cover had been blown to the Russians by double agent Aldrich Ames. Her marriage to a high-profile former diplomat further limited her ability to fly under the radar. She began working at CIA headquarters in Langley, assigned to the directorate of operations, the CIA'S clandestine branch that manages its human spying overseas and is one of the agency's most secretive directorates. "NOCs aren't supposed to come into the building," said Fred Rustmann, a former senior CIA official and a Plame superior. "It doesn't serve cover well. It may serve the moment. They break the rules for expediency. In Valerie's case, she's a bright young woman. She has some experience in nuclear proliferation."
(At the end of this long column, finally, a quote that passes the "make sense" test!)
"Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week"
(Bullhockeydoodoo! Wilson exposed the reason when he sat there and eyeballed the bestseller lists for the benefit of the reporter.)