Were the late 1990s so long ago that everybody's forgotten who Roger Morris is? Judging from the
recommended diary on his Condi Rice article, I guess they have.
For those who don't know, Morris wrote a smear book called Partners in Power in 1996 that accused Bill Clinton of not just being a cocaine addict but being involved in a coke-smuggling ring ... not to mention every other recycled wingnut claim Morris could find.
If you read his Plame timeline, basically he's taking published reports and adding "with Rice's approval" or "Rice was briefed on this" at every opportunity. It smells in a big way, and I think Kossacks will be sorry if they put too much stock in it. I have a detailed post at Needlenose with excerpts of Gene Lyons' debunking of Partners in Power, plus a listing of dubious items in the Morris timeline. The short version, though, is that we should stay far away from anything Morris writes.