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The first Republican president once said, "While the people retain their virtue and their vigilance, no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can seriously injure the government in the short space of four years." If Mr. Lincoln could see what's happened in these last three-and-a-half years, he might hedge a little on that statement. Blog critics Gryffindor House Slytherin House Ravenclaw House House Elves Beth Jacob Prisoners of Azkaban Muggles
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
I Don't Know Nuttin' The Valerie Plame controversy reached the daily White House briefing yesterday, with Press Secretary McClellan being asked a series of questions. One obvious fact jumps out of the exchange: McClellan clearly is unwilling to make a flat denial that senior administration officials outed Plame. While it is true that McClellan sometimes seems unwilling to make a direct statement about what the date is, this non-denial denial still strikes me as significant. The relevant exchange follows: Q The Robert Novak column last week identified the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson as a CIA operative who was working on WMD issues. Novak said that identification is based on information given to him by two administration sources. That column has now given rise to accusations that the administration deliberatively blew the cover of an undercover CIA operative, and in so doing, violated a federal law that prohibits revealing the identity of undercover CIA operatives. Can you respond to that? |
