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...backstabbing that has poisoned the past two presidencies. Having fumbled around in the drawer for months looking for a weapon to use against Bush, the Democrats saw an opening. On top of a moody economy, a messy war, a swelling budget deficit and a deeply polarized electorate, the leak charges came as Bush's poll numbers had sunk to the lowest point in his tenure. Indeed, with the presidential election a little more than a year away, only 37% of Americans believe the country is on the right track, according to the latest New York Times/CBS poll. When word spread...
...aside. And on the other, there was President Bush at the University of Chicago, asking reporters who covered him to turn in anyone on his staff who had given up Plame. There was no danger of that, because any reporter who might have learned Plame's name in a leak is duty bound to shut up about it, even to federal investigators, if the situation comes to that. Such obligations did not stop hundreds of reporters and politicians who thought they knew the identity of the leakers from buzzing about it, exchanging winks and nods about the supposed culprits...
...double-barreled leak had two targets. One was to tag Wilson as a tired, second-rate diplomat who couldn't get a job without his wife's help. The leakers also wanted to drop the hint that the CIA had purposefully chosen someone it believed would come back with a skeptical finding...
...Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction,” and that he had learned this information from two “senior White House officials.” A White House official told the Washington Post last Sunday that the pair had tried to leak the information to several journalists. “Clearly,” the official told the Post, “it was meant purely and simply for revenge...
Novak did not share the integrity of his peers, who declined to use the leaked information, and his decision to blow Plame’s cover is reprehensible. But if the charges are true, the administration officials who knowingly exposed a CIA operative, and any others in the White House that were complicit in the leak, deserve the heaviest opprobrium. Identifying Plame would not only be a federal crime: under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act it would be treason. As Wilson himself has said, “Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network...