Scot Woods: PoliticsRambilngs about the War, the upcoming elections and political philosophy.Rove the Rube- July 18, 2005 The defense of Karl Rove seems to center on the idea that the deputy White House chief of staff was a bumbling amateur, an innocent naif, and didn't really understand what he was talking about. He only leaked classified material, so the defense goes, to courageously correct an allegation that nobody ever made: The Dick Cheney sent Joseph Wilson to Africa. He didn't know, we're asked to believe, that "Wilson's wife" was a covert CIA agent (though, if she were working overtly, the Mighty Pen.http://blogs.salon.com/0001888/categories/politics/2005/07/18.html#a278 Is this what happened- July 13, 2005 You have to read this comment about Iraq, Afghanistan and 911 by "The Oklahoma Hippie" over at the Talking Points Memo Cafe. I suspect that historians will eventually establish that something generally along these lines is what happened.http://www.tpmcafe.com/comments/2005/7/13/04720/9340/21?mode=alone;showrate=1#21 A letter to Salon- July 13, 2005 Here is my reply to Imperfect Martyr, Andrew O'Hehir's defense of Judith Miller, the NYTimes reporter currently jailed for refusing to answer the summons of a federal court: ----------------------- Salon editors: Andrew O'Hehir may have strong opinions, but his legal reasoning needs some work. The point obscured by O'Hehir, and most other pundits who have rallied to Judith Miller's defense, is that this reporter is not being persecuted or prosecuted for exercising her First Amendment rights....http://blogs.salon.com/0001888/categories/politics/2005/07/13.html#a275 |