The Wilson smear was a thuggish act. Bush and his crew abused and misused intelligence to make their case for war. Now there is evidence Bushies used classified information and put the nation's counter-proliferation efforts at risk merely to settle a score. It is a sign that with this gang politics trumps national security.
David Corn now:
The disclosures about Armitage, gleaned from interviews with colleagues, friends and lawyers directly involved in the case, underscore one of the ironies of the Plame investigation: that the initial leak, seized on by administration critics as evidence of how far the White House was willing to go to smear an opponent, came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone.
Note that Corn does not use words like "thuggish" and "gang politics" these days and instead uses the benign phrase "administration critics." But exactly who turned out to be the thuggish gang here?
Obviously the answer is Corn and the rest of the heavy breathers who have lost the capacity for critical thought down the drain of Bush hatred.
And the final analysys?
Joe Wilson: Liar.
Rove: innocent.
The State Department: Guilty but apparently not culpable.
Bush: Not connected at all.
Thus is the result of one the greatest smear jobs ever attempted. One that had the full complicity of the media and one that was knowingly fueled by lies and misinformation. Today's Democratic Party in a nutshell.
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