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[snip] Gangel: What do you think of Karl Rove? Wilson: Oh, I think he's — I'm really very saddened by all of this. Gangel: What does your wife think of Karl Rove? Wilson: She doesn't think very much of him either. I can assure you of that. [snip] Gangel: Your critics have said that this is partisan on your part, that you are part of a Democratic attempt to discredit Iraq policy. Wilson: That's simply not true. Gangel: You are a Democrat? Wilson: I exercise my rights as a citizen of this country to participate in the selection of my...

Chicago’s DePaul University, which has taken a couple of hits for its grotesque squashing of a professor’s free-speech rights, is hitting back, adding defamatory insult to career-ending injury – and a question comes to mind. It’s a question that was asked by the counsel for the Army in 1954 when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was seeking out Communists in the government. He threw his charges around with little or no evidence; others in Congress did the same, and sometimes reputations were recklessly ruined. In the hearing, McCarthy got tangled with the counsel, Joseph Welch, in suggesting that a young associate of...