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The Return of the Plumbers.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Ah, gotcha.
Yeah, I don't think that it was wrong in that sense. I see it as a big "so-what?" substantively. It's news (but not Big News) in that it shows a certain level of hypocrisy. There was, according to Libby's testimony, direct authorization by the president and vice president of a leak of an NIE to a sympathetic reporter -- by an administration in which leaks were verboten.
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As one lefty to another, I say: Who fucking cares about the hypocrisy? The issue is the way they manipulate public information and debate about vital matters of national security. So they're saying one thing, and doing another: The bigger problem is what they do, not what they say.
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