Digby spanks press over Plame

It's been a slow day for Plame fans. Those who need a fix can go read a great, blood-boiling item by the ever eloquent digby.

Being a post by digby i don't have anything to add but if anyone needs a fix it is a good read. great stuff... there's a quote on the flip. Enjoy.

There is no legitimate reason for a top administration official to anonymously leak classified information to support the administration's position. You can see a case in which a top official would legitimately leak classified information to cast doubt on the administration's policy with which he disagrees, but not the other way around. The executive branch classifies information in the first place, presumably because it's not supposed to be public. If they feel that the information is important and necessary to make public in order to support their policy, they can declassify it, call a press conference, give an interview, write a paper. Or they can shut up and find another way to advance their position. What they shouldn't be able to do is have it both ways --- use classified information to wage turf wars or discredit administration critics by having the press cover their asses. And yet that's what happened. Top members of the Bush administration know they can get away with this because they believe that the chumps in the press will even go to jail rather than reveal their dirty deeds (which they went to great pains to remind the press to do.) That is "up is downism" taken to an extreme.

•  Digby is the real deal

  He's really got a great way of approaching things.  I try to catch Hullabaloo at least once a day.

  by Aethern on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 12:03:16 AM PDT

  •  Yup

    I think if I had to pick a favourite blog writer it would be digby. He always impresses

    by drag0n on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 12:15:03 AM PDT

  •  Digby's a daily destination

    No wonder the Press Corpse and Beltway Bobbleheads petulantly target fact & ethics checking blog(ger)s -- while simultaneously pretending they're insignificant. There's not even a contest anymore. The admin enablers have a kernel of survival instinct working under their Koolaid drunk to sense their power is shrinking and their days are numbered.
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    In no particular order of favoritism, my indispensible reads for news context and analysis are: Digby (Hullabaloo), Billmon, Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo), John Aravosis (AmericaBlog) and Steve Soto (The Left Coaster).
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    And Jane Hamscher and [America's Favorite] ReddHedd (FiredogLake) have become my two new best cyberfriends.
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    by Peanut on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 04:22:04 AM PDT

•  Plame fix

     Between the ever terrific digby, Jane at firedoglake, emptywheel at the next hurrah and diaries here at DKos and at TPM it's been a great buzz for the last several days. Things are a fixin to blow...bad metaphor bad... go to another level on this issue. And that great fisherman Fitz is trolling....slowly, slowly...
      Ah hell I'm preaching to the choir again!

  by KenBee on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 01:11:46 AM PDT

•  digby rocks - read the whole piece

  recommended

  good job dude

  by knowthings on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 01:17:34 AM PDT