Several important articles have appeared in the press in recent days on the issue of the exposure of Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent. This Washington Post piece by Walter Pincus and Mike Allen amplify some aspects of the subject.
Columnist Nicholas Kristof has some good analysis of the issues, despite the fact that his trying to equate Demcratic "excesses" (recommending a special counsel, which he conflates with a Ken Starr-type independent counsel) with Republican "excesses" (ratting out an undercover CIA operative) is frivolous.
A Knight-Ridder piece by Warren Strobel explains some of the damage that Republican excesses may have done in this case.
Among Weblogs, Josh Marshall's has been the one to watch on this story (which is where I picked up those last two references), and he comments on the first, as well. Daily Kos also has a good discussion of the latest. Billmon weighs in, too.
AOL Journal The Other Shoe doesn't find Joe Wilson an impressive character. But this thing has gone way beyond pesonalities, now. Lying to go to war in Iraq was a very different level of deception than routine campaign hype. The Valerie Plame scandal is one outgrowth of that campaign of deception. The "blowback" on that is already looking to be fearsome. And it's just beginning.
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