Posted on 07/20/2005 11:09:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
This media frenzy on the purported leak of a CIA operative's identity, not coincidentally, comes during the summer doldrums -- a time when traditionally little real national news happens and Congress is preoccupied mainly with the coming August recess.
It's important to understand this story was playing itself out in the context of a domestic news vacuum (at least prior to Judge John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court) that created a deeply distorted environment rife with speculation, conjecture, misinformation and exaggeration.
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Summer in Washington is like golfs silly season.
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