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August 31, 2006
Plamegate Denouement
Attention, Mr. & Mrs. Wilson. Your 15 minutes are up.
Update: The Washington Post has a short article marking the end of this kerfuffle. Their concluding paragraph nails it.
Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.
Posted by Doug at August 31, 2006 05:37 PM
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so that's how you spell "denouement".
Posted by: Editor at August 31, 2006 07:13 PM
Dictionary.com is my friend.
Posted by: Doug Payton at August 31, 2006 09:36 PM