Reply #31: Thanks for the welcome, and cheer up!

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Americans, more than almost anything, loathe and despise a hypocrite. What they did to Plame proves them to be exactly what they are - total hypocrites with NO loyalty, NO ethics, and NO conscience.

These clowns willingly and maliciously (and quite illegally) leaked the name of a covert CIA officer - and it ain't over. All the Dems need to do is keep bringing it up once in a while, keep using it to jab, jab, jab. The investigation (always good to have some of those running) will keep right on going.

The longer the Administration pretends that this will go away, the better we like it. Think of the debates! Kerry and Bush on the tube, right before the election, Kerry says something like, "Mr. President, YOU had the power to find out who did this to one of our most important secret CIA operatives who dedicated her entire life to serving this nation and fighting WMD around the world. YOU FAILED to control your staff from the beginning and YOU FAILED to do anything about it YOURSELF when this crime came to light. WHY ARE YOU PROTECTING THE CRIMINALS IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION WHO HAVE PUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AT RISK?"

Or blah blah blah whatever. You see where this goes.

Think about American political scandals for a minute. Any one you can think of went this way. Nixon with Watergate, Reagan/Bush with Iran-Contra, Clinton with Starr. It's slow, but inexorable, and someone always gets burned. Add to that the fact that the Agency is MUCHO pissed at Bush and the Administration on other fronts. Plame is one of their own, Rove/Bush threw her to the dogs to cover their own lies. The Agency never forgets.

I think this issue is a winner.