The Washington Post story is the most damning:
A senior administration official said two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and revealed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife. That was shortly after Wilson revealed in July that the CIA had sent him to Niger last year to look into the uranium claim and that he had found no evidence to back up the charge. Wilson's account eventually touched off a controversy over Bush's use of intelligence as he made the case for attacking Iraq.Holy Jeebus. For those of you playing our home game, a major White House player just came out and busted two of his or her colleagues. That is one of those things that Simply Isn't Done in the Rove/Bush White House. Someone is seriously unhappy with the way this has developed. Prime suspects include Powell and Tenet, who have often seemed like voices of sanity in the crazed wilderness of the PNAC rush to conquest. Both have also been scapegoats for the administration's failures, Powell for "losing" the UN in the run-up to war and Tenet falling on his sword (yet missing all the major organs) regarding those "16 words."
"Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge," the senior official said of the alleged leak.
As for the news corps' sudden escape from their drugged stupor, is this a brief respite, or has our SCLM finally woken up? Let us hope they're permanently back on the job. Team Bush has gotten a free ride for far too long, and the outing of Valerie Plame is one of their most despicable acts -- which, for this administration, is really saying something.
(/) Roland X
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