Contemptible Traitors: Get Them Out Of Government — NOW

July 10th, 2005

I think it is crucial to keep the fundamental point clearly in mind with regard to the Joseph Wilson-Valerie Plame story. Even though Bush’s defenders have tried to minimize the significance of this controversy in numerous ways and will no doubt continue to do so, now more than ever, the attempts at distraction are beside the point. For example, it doesn’t matter if Plame had not been overseas in some years; it doesn’t matter whether Plame was still under “deep cover” (that may indeed matter for certain legal purposes, but not in terms of the larger political and moral issues); and so on.