Well, it seems that some of the
tools that have permanently attched themselves to the teat of the RNC have their own explanation for the whole Plamegate fiasco.
Evidently it's really simple...
According to Time.com today, a House panel is seeking documents that "reportedly detailed former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's 2002 CIA-sponsored trip to Niger to investigate a report that Saddam Hussein was trying to procure nuclear material from Niger. The memo noted Plame, Wilson's wife had a role in suggesting to other CIA officials that her husband would be a good person to send to Niger because of his experience on the continent as a career foreign service officer."
I get it. These documents that "reportedly detailed former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's 2002 CIA-sponsored trip" if they DO exist, go on to say that "Wilson's wife had a role in suggesting to other CIA officials that her husband would be a good person to send to Niger because of his experience on the continent as a career foreign service officer."
How many times has this bullshit been
laid to rest?
It gets better, here's what really went down, according to John Podhoretz
tool at large:
Cliff. there's a whole lot of weird stuff in that piece. It says categorically that the CIA's chief spokesman Bill Harlow did NOT tell Novak that Plame was an undercover (or NOC) operative: "He did not tell Novak directly that she was undercover because that was classified."
Yeah, yeah, we ALL know that, but what does John Podhoretz, defender of a witless America have to explain? It's all here:
He said he called Novak back to repeat that the story Novak had related to him was wrong and that Plame's name should not be used."
This surely sounded to Novak like a CIA CYA. He thought he was onto something, an explanation of the bizarre choice of Joseph Wilson to serve as Dick Cheney's source of information on Saddam's hijinks in Niger. (Remember that, at this time, the world believed Cheney was in on Wilson's trip because Wilson had told Nick Kristof of the New York Times exactly that.)
Flaks try to silence journalists all the time with weird hints and winks, and most of the time, those weird hints and winks are basically lies, as Novak surely knows. When flaks tell you not to say something without saying something like, "It would be a crime to do so," a veteran of flack spin like Novak might have thought this was an a-ha moment -- the revelation of the truth he needed, rather than the direction not to name Valerie Plame Harlow thought (or says he thought) he was delivering.
I'm so glad he can get into the pants of men like that. Ooops, sorry! I meant the hearts of men. Ahem. Where's a hacksaw when you need one?