CNN’s Kyra Phillips – skirt down, mike open.
Hitchens on the whimpering demise of Plamegate.
In his July 12 column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak had already partly exposed this paranoid myth by stating plainly that nobody had leaked anything, or outed anyone, to him. On the contrary, it was he who approached sources within the administration and the CIA and not the other way around. But now we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like Robert Novak’s—long been a byword in Washington. It is particularly satisfying that this admission comes from two of the journalists—Michael Isikoff and David Corn—who did the most to get the story wrong in the first place and the most to keep it going long beyond the span of its natural life.
When a Liberal talks about a “national food policy”, think “Canadian Wheat Board For Everything”.
Stanley Kurtz – Our Fallout Shelter Future, in National Review.
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Claudia Rosett now blogging. …-
The Rosett Report
Broader Lands and Better Days
There are times I’ve wondered if there is some equilibrium amount of evil in the world —every time it is beaten back, it grows again. We trounce the Nazis and the Cold War begins; the Soviet Union finally collapses and out of a blue September sky, Islamic fascists are upon us. And yet, when freedom-loving people keep faith with themselves — and each other — there are mighty forces set in motion, which, as Winston Churchill foresaw at the beginning of World War II, will “roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.”
As a reporter, I’ve covered this contest between good and evil — on levels ranging from pedantic to historic — for more than 25 years. For much of that time, I worked for The Wall Street Journal, writing editorials from Hong Kong and New York, and reporting from the former Soviet Union. Since 2003, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where I am journalist-in-residence, has given me the support and the freedom to cover the War on Terror in whatever ways seem most compelling. That has led from reporting on tyrants and democratic dissidents to covering the world’s ritziest club for crooks, con-men, thugs, and the occasional genuine diplomat — the place known otherwise as the United Nations.
Blogging is, for me, something new. I’ve done it only once before, in covering the first Oil-for-Food trial earlier this year for National Review Online. This site is a work-in-progress, and I welcome your comments. …-
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