Posted by
bubbatroid on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:43:42 PM
As I live and breathe, I never thought I'd see this -- on CNN no less!
In an article describing the new book about the Plame non-story, written by two committed lefties (Isikoff and Corn), CNN actually points out what has been obvious to most of us since day 1 - there was never any "there" there.
But for CNN to make this observation is devastating, both for Joe Wilson's (last remaining shreds of) credibility, and for their silly lawsuit.
Key grafs:
"The revelation that Armitage was the source of Novak's column is
somewhat anticlimactic for
Bush administration critics who had used the
story as a weapon in Washington's partisan battles."
Anticlimactic. Yeah, I'd say so.
Then there's this:
"Last month, Plame and Wilson filed a civil lawsuit alleging a
conspiracy that "was motivated by an invidiously discriminatory animus
towards those who had publicly criticized the administration's stated
justifications for going to war with Iraq" and culminated with
the disclosure that Plame worked at the CIA....However, the scenario described by the sources appears to contradict those arguments."
Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/30/leak.armitage/index.html