If this kid goes to jail, gets fined, or generally gets any retribution for what he did, I'll be very mad. I think this kid's a hero. Heatwole's an ordinary citizen trying to do his duty to point out our weaknesses, and should be commended.
This is despicable
"It keeps getting worse ... scandals in the Bush White House," the ad says. "Now they illegally leaked the identity of an American CIA agent ... all to hide Bush administration deceptions about the war in Iraq."
First of all, this just about totally a non-story. In fact, there's a real story in the Plame/Novak/Wilson affair, but it's not in the leak of Wilson's wife's name. It's why Wilson's own wife, through nepotism, was able to put such an unqualified and rabidly anti-Bush and anti-war person in such an important position regarding our intelligence, and furthermore, why people believed his report when it wasn't based on any real research... This led to the Niger uranium "scandal", which itself was a non-story, since what Bush said in his SOTU speech was accurate, and British intelligence still stands by their intelligence today. AFAIK, the only story which disagreed with the British intelligence report was Wilson's -- a man who's explicitly stated that he wants to take down Bush and Rove.
But what makes this ad even more despicable is that Novak himself has stated clearly that the leak did not come from within the White House. So not only is this ad partisan weaseling, or ordinary spin, it's downright dishonest. They're lying through their teeth in opposition to well established facts.
Here's a pretty good summary of the issue. I'm pretty furious that this story still has legs like a month later, when it had no substance a month ago. Neither did the Niger uranium story. I guess there's a bright side to this. It's that if this is the best anyone can do to try to pin a scandal on George Bush, then we can be pretty confident that there really isn't anything on him.
Monday, October 20, 2003
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