Some Excellent BloggingI'll admit that I've not been paying much attention to the Rove/Plame affair, but it continues to provide grist for others' mills. Rick Moran (fka Superhawk)
has a superb post up about a letter three former CIA agents have signed asking Congress not to "play politics" with the outing of CIA assets. Rick decided to poke a little deeper into the history of the three, and discovered that they are playing politics themselves.
Curiously, Goodman also seems to have joined the tin foil hat brigade on 9/11. Appearing at Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s hearing on Friday that featured panelists who posited theories on 9/11 ranging from the Twin Towers coming down as a result of a “controlled demolition” to the Pentagon being blown up deliberately and not partially destroyed by a hijacked aircraft, Goodman was quoted as saying about McKinney that… “I hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom.”Note this bit about Larry Johnson, one of the signers:
Claiming to be a “registered Republican who voted for Bush in 2000,” Johnson has emerged as Valerie Wilson’s #1 defender.That's a formulation that we've seen before. Wasn't it Richard Clarke who claimed to have voted in the Republican primary in 2000 as evidence of him not being a partisan Democrat? Which sounded pretty good until
somebody looked back and noticed that Virginia, where Clarke lived at the time, didn't have a Democratic primary in 2000?
Update: Johnson was chosen to make the
Democrat's response to the President's weekly radio address.
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson used the Democratic Party's weekly radio address Saturday to reiterate comments he made Friday to a panel of House and Senate Democrats.Meanwhile, the Daily Ablution, which broke the story about a member of a terrorist organization writing for the Guardian, gets a raspberry from that rag in return. But when the Guardian hands him raspberries,
Scott Burgess makes raspberry tea.
Actually, I should thank the Guardian for being so impressed with my investigative skills. In their view, I went from never having heard of Mr. Aslam to my discovery, two days later, of exactly which trainee position he was occupying. Perhaps the Guardian has room for a reporter of such ability - I understand they have a slot open.
