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That shell game one is particularly funny.

did it ask about Wilson's wife?

From the ABC Note: "..how did the White House 'learn' that she was a covert operative? In 5+ years at 1600, I never once heard/learned/read/happened upon the name of an 'operative'? Names are redacted in the PDB and referenced only as 'humint'; Agency reports are redacted for names, and even the briefers who show up every day presumably disguise their identities; you don't take them to lunch at Breadline. So, if you don't stumble upon this factoid, you were looking for it. If so, why?"

Will this question be asked first by print media, broaccast media, EU media, or will it appear first in a scene on " 'West Wing' or 'K Street'?"


Indeed - will the Post's Edsall/Eilperin comment that the Republican lobbyists in Washington eyeing up Iraq as a "major new profit center." first show up in a TV script - or in the news nedia?


And who wants to bet that they will not find on today's evening broadcast news the Senator Kerry comment that "It's like the 1970s when Nixon would just throw names out, throw out accusations, play political games and dirty tricks.'" "The Senator continued, 'It's complete in its Orwellian dissembling. It's part of a pattern; you know, they name something 'Healthy Forests' and they chop down the trees; they call something 'Clear Skies' and the skies are going to be dirtier than if you didn't do anything. It's part of a whole pattern, but here it's more abusive, more significant impact on people. But I think people are tired of, they're angry about it.'"

or even the mild Kerry sarcasm "...the White House is saying because Joe Wilson supports someone for president, that it was, therefore, justifiable to release the name of his wife as a CIA agent and break the law? That's a very interesting logic.'"