Digging through Old Articles...
Steven Clemons asks a question many of us (not least Swopa) have been asking for two years. Who is the SAO in the WaPo's September 28 article?
But Jeff has gotten me re-examining an even more intriguing article, the October 12 WaPo article the followed up and elaborated on the earlier WaPo article.This article is interesting because while it largely aligns with what we know from Libby's indictment, it also suggests there
John Dean Sends Woodward a Letter
There is no way anyone who is remotely familiar with Fitzgerald's history--or Dean's attentiveness to the Plame Affair--would take this line from John Dean's recent letter seriously:
I believe that you were selected with theexpectation that you would conduct the narrowest of investigations, andit seems you have done just that.
Fitzgerald is famous for diligently, patiently, meticulously grabbing hold of one tiny thread of a crime and with it shredding giant conspiracies.
Utilitarian Postmodernists and the Office of Special Plans
I've always been curious about the Gary Schmitt and Abram Shulsky (S&S) essay "Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)." But I was too lazy to hunt it down. Now that Pat Lang has helpfully provided a…
Trent Lott: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
I suggested yesterday that Lott's outspokenness against torture was more pragmatic than ideological. He ruined Fristy's little PR stunt--of hunting down the leaker of the news that we've got secret prisons in eastern Europe--by revealing the leaker was probably a Republican Senator. But he did it, almost certainly, to piss off Frist, not to make a great stand against torture.
But Lott has an opportunity to really undercut Bush, Rove, and Frist.