Political smear campaign against Joe Wilson comes back to bite the rethugs in the ass
Now Karl Rove has become "fair game."
That was the term that the president's consigliere applied to Valerie Plame in a conversation with Chris Matthews immediately after the publication of Boob Novak's column that identified Plame as a CIA operative. Her identity was a tool to discredit, however obliquely, the report from her husband, Joe Wilson, that the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to purchase uranium from Niger was a bunch of hooey.
That was the term that the president's consigliere applied to Valerie Plame in a conversation with Chris Matthews immediately after the publication of Boob Novak's column that identified Plame as a CIA operative. Her identity was a tool to discredit, however obliquely, the report from her husband, Joe Wilson, that the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to purchase uranium from Niger was a bunch of hooey.
- Harold Meyerson, the WaPo.
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