Maybe
they need to purge some tinfoil hat types. Nick Danger is posting that Judith Miller is in jail to protect a Democratic operative.
Can it be that the person she talked to wasn't an "Administration Official" at all, but a Democratic political operative setting up a "media hit" on Bush?
Just who is Nick Danger anyway?
Comments include suggestions that:
- Bill and/or Hillary outed Valerie Plame;
- Valerie Plame outed herself (a political kamikaze move I guess)
- James Carville did it (and pulled the wool over Novak's eyes); and,
- Joe Wilson did it but was directed to do so by John Kerry.
- Colin Powell, I forgot Colin Powell. My bad.
Naturally, such speculation merely fuels my suspicion that:
The Niger yellowcake forgeries were Roveian-esque in origin as were the documents that snared Dan Rather. Shame on Dan for taking the bait, but hey, shame on them for pulling that stunt. The right wing bloggers knew the details about obsolete typewriters just a little to fast for my intuition. Vaguely similiar MO as with Newsweek and the Koran flushing, extend a leak then saw off the branch.
As a bonus: A great photo courtesy of wonkette.