It's nice to see at the beginning of the new year that the Valerie Plame leak scandal is receiving some of the news coverage it deserves. Mike Allen of the Washington Post has a new piece on it: Justice Could Decide Leak Was Not a Crime (01/02/04).
Josh Marshal has some comments and pointed criticisms of the article:
So let's stop the charade. They're guilty as sin. It's now crystal clear that from the very beginning the folks at the White House have known who did it. And pretty clearly the president didn't see anything wrong with it, or didn't care, because he didn't try to do anything about it.
Juan Cole also has some thoughts about the case:
Bush knows who did this dastardly deed, or could easily find it out. He has declined to demand that these persons resign and turn themselves in. This incident shows how vindictive and petty the Bush administration is, and how utterly unconcerned it is with real national security and weapons proliferation.
The San Francisco Chronicle editorialized about the case on 01/02/04:
The outing of Plame was more than reckless. It not only poased a potenital threat to her life, it showed a blatant disregard for the nationa's intelligence operations. ...
As we said at the time this scandal broke, the public would be best served by vigorous independent invesigation. Either an outside counsel should look at these serious allegations, or Congress should commit the resources necessary for a thorough inquiry of its own.
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