Reply #20: AKA the "stoopit as a freepturd" defense.

[Fridays Child]

But, seriously, first, Armitage cops to "unknowingly" outing a NOC and, now, Fleischer is doing the same thing.

I don't believe either one of them but that's not even the point. The Bush administration has consistently advanced the notion that they are the only ones capable of saving us from terrorism. However, if the outing of a CIA agent with years of critical, covert dealings on WMD nonproliferation issues was truly just a bumbling error, such ineptitude soars past the level of criminal incompetence.

The people charged with keeping us safe from terrorism should, at the very least, be held to the standard of "knew or should have known," when it comes to matters of this magnitude. Unless I'm mistaken, though, the law actually does allow them to play the "We're Too Stupid" card. x(