Thanks for the post. I'm unclear as to how he 'outed' her in that entry. That she was married to Joseph Wilson wasn't at issue. I thought that her status at the CIA was at issue. I don't see any reference to that in the entry.
Oh ... the house of cards is definitely tumbling down. WaPo knows it, and so the editorial today. They don't want to be the last one standing, with their finger in their ear.
What President Bush Should Do About Plamegate
(While he works night and day to protect US and suffers burdens of terrifying knowledge we'll never fathom. God bless him.
Back to the article excerpt .. go, Clarice!!
"I’m so livid at this tangible and intangible harm that I cannot imagine that the President doesn’t share my fury at such damaging perfidy. If I were advising him, here’s what I’‘d tell him:
(1) He should have Attorney General Gonzales report to him everything the Department knows of the Armitage revelations and when they occurred to ascertain whether any of the Isikoff-Corn report is false.
2) Former Secretary Powell should be summoned and asked when he learned of the Armitage admission and why he failed to report this to him.
(3) If the reports that he knew in September 2003 that Armitage was the leaker prove true, the President should publicly say that he is deeply disappointed in the conduct of the former State Department officials, that he doesn’t question their belief that the Armitage leaks were inadvertent but that there failure to notify him of those leaks was inexcusable.
(4) If the facts indicate that former Attorney General Ashcroft and Comey knew who Novak’s source was, the President should indicate his disappointment in them for having yielded to the press frenzy in appointing a special prosecutor rather than simply having the courage to tell what happened and why.
(5) He should express regret to the country for this unnecessary and longstanding distraction occasioned by these failures.
(6) He should express special regret to Scooter Libby and his family who have been forced to endure so much for no reason whatsoever.
(7) Finally, he should express disappointment in the unprofessional conduct of the Special Prosecutor who misled the public and the Courts, among other things, and he should announce that he is instructing the Atttorney General to dismiss Fitzgerald and drop the case against Libby.
The President is an honorable man who naively believed that these officials shared his courage and sense of honor and probity.
He has so far not spoken on this matter nor criticized the evident failures of the Prosecutor or his former appointed officials, but it is now time to move, to place the blame for this longstanding and damaging distraction where it belongs, and to act to prevent further injustice and distraction from truly pressing matters of critical significance to this country."