The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, August 27, 2006
More Fallout from the Plame Affair
This observation is from R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. in the September print edition of the American Spectator (subscriber only). But there is one graf that is just aching to be quoted:
Ms. Valerie Plame's persecution complex continues to make headlines. On July 13 the willowy CIA operative, who in recent years has been CIA station chief at the Tysons Corner shopping center in northern Virginia, filed a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and his aides for blowing her cover and making it impossible for her to enter Bloomingdale's unidentified. Ms. Plame had been particularly good at photographing members of the Arab diplomatic corps as they shopped for picnic lunches at Victoria's Secret. Unfortunately, since the Bush Administration identified her as an operative in an effort to discredit her husband, the handsome perjurer Ambassador Joseph Wilson, she has not dared to venture from her Georgetown purlieus even for a Vanity Fair photo op. The consequence has been an incalculable loss to our national security and a grievous inconvenience to Mr. Wilson, who can no longer get a pedicure or a leg waxing without attracting public notice.
UPDATE: "But seriously, folks..." Tom McGuire does have a lot of new information and speculation on Plamegate, beginning with possible explanations for Richard Armitage not being more public about his role in this to begin with. Some very interesting food for thought here.
Ms. Valerie Plame's persecution complex continues to make headlines. On July 13 the willowy CIA operative, who in recent years has been CIA station chief at the Tysons Corner shopping center in northern Virginia, filed a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and his aides for blowing her cover and making it impossible for her to enter Bloomingdale's unidentified. Ms. Plame had been particularly good at photographing members of the Arab diplomatic corps as they shopped for picnic lunches at Victoria's Secret. Unfortunately, since the Bush Administration identified her as an operative in an effort to discredit her husband, the handsome perjurer Ambassador Joseph Wilson, she has not dared to venture from her Georgetown purlieus even for a Vanity Fair photo op. The consequence has been an incalculable loss to our national security and a grievous inconvenience to Mr. Wilson, who can no longer get a pedicure or a leg waxing without attracting public notice.
UPDATE: "But seriously, folks..." Tom McGuire does have a lot of new information and speculation on Plamegate, beginning with possible explanations for Richard Armitage not being more public about his role in this to begin with. Some very interesting food for thought here.
