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Well, he has a PR firm representing him, and hangs out with a whole group of lefty networkers. Yeah, I'd say he has a team.

I didn't hear that interview that you did. Makes sense that the difference in phrasing would make an impact on you, and why you worked so hard to clarify that point.

But given that he said Cheney didn't send him, do you think he's deliberately jerking aorund the administration, trying to create a scandal where there is just a regular, non-nefarious effort to correct the record and clarify a confusing situation?

Do you think the administration was 'out to get him' and worse, to do it by going after his wife?

Pinz

I don't think there is any doubt that there was a concerted effort among various high-ranking officials to discredit Joe Wilson. Many of them have apparently admitted as much. Scooter apparently kept a dossier on the guy (if that gets into evidence in the trial, it will be very interesting). Do I believe they intended to out his wife? I don't know. Do I believe they intended to use the "his CIA wife sent him on the trip" to help discredit him? Absolutely. Even Novak says as much.

It cracks me up when this gets portrayed as the WH 'needed to mount a defense against Wilson's withering attack.' Right. I still believe they would have been much better off to just dismiss the guy as partisan and partially informed and ignore him.