Quote:
Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I figure that if I don't argue with you, you'll move on to something else.
E.g., none of you even bothered to defend the Bush Administration's leaking of the name of the Al Qaeda double-agent working with the Pakistanis -- something far more important and material to presidential election than anything we've been talking about for the last couple of days -- and so we all just let the story slide.*
You want to talk about Cambodia, and I'm happy to oblige.
eta: How's that for remarkably bad timing? But what the hell are you trying to say? That the NYT should have known the Pakistanis were using him as a double agent and not used his name, when it was the Bushies who gave it to them on background? On background doesn't mean they're supposed to keep it to themselves -- it means that it has to be attributed to an unnamed official. And by your reasoning, it's Robert Novak's fault that he's not revealing who leaked Valerie Plame's name, since he could burn his sources to do that.
|
No, the Cambodia thing is boring. Let's talk about what a great job the admin is doing fighting the war on terror by compromising intelligence agent/sources.
