Reply #25: great point. very important!

[H2O Man]

DUers will no doubt remember Clifford May, the former RNC staffer who wrote a republican response to Ambassador Wilson in the National Review Online. May is, of course, now the president of "front" that's "advisory board" includes: Newt Gingrich, James Woolsey, Richard Perle, and Charles Kraunthammer. Clifford wrote, among other nonsense, that Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative who specialize in the clandestine collection of foreign intel, covert ops, and espionage.

Plame's true career was a secret to her family, friends, and neighbors.... until Robert Novak exposed her. But if we are to take Mr. May at his word, we are to believe that a large group of administration officials, retired intelligence officers connected to the republican party,journalists, and neoconservatives knew about her work.

How can that be?

The answer is that after the VP's "think tank" decided that Wilson posed a threat to their being behind the forged Niger documents, they did an intensive study to see how they could deal with him. As Wilson notes on page 443 in his book, sources have said that this information was shared with Rove, who then circulated it to the administration officials, intel retirees, journalist, and neocons.

Think about the implications, perhaps especially in regard to the media.