On NBC News tonight, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell (Mrs Alan Greenspan) had a report on Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize today. The report had a film clip of Gary Sick, identified as a "former National Security Council official", commenting on Ms Ebadi. His comments were appropriate and unremarkable. What I do find remarkable is the use of Gary Sick as a commentator. Sick, you may recall, was behind the resurrection of the "October Surprise" accusation during the first Bush administration. The October Surprise accusation held that George H W Bush, while running...
