The Daily Howler - 10/18/05

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005

THE PLAGUE YEARS (PRESS CORPS VERSION): How hapless is the Post’s Richard Cohen? Today, he offers a “clarification” about last Thursday’s column:

COHEN (10/18/05): A clarification: A number of readers, some of them formerly of the CIA, got the impression from my last column that I don't consider the outing of a covert employee a serious matter. I do.

But if Cohen does think such an outing is serious, his previous column makes no sense at all. Just click here for the gory details. Sic semper mainstream columnists.

Meanwhile, the Times’ John Tierney tells us today that the outing of Plame wasn’t especially serious. Reason? There was little chance it would get her “harmed or killed,” he says. But is it possible that the outing of Plame compromised U.S. security interests? Tierney saves his argument by failing to address this concern.