I think Sspad hit it right on the head. You can't focus on the gravity of a CIA "agent" being outed, b/c from what I gather, she was basically like a research assistant at the agency.
However, that doesn't change the fact that this was political pay back. Rove has a history of this. And his defense that he never stated her name is pretty weak. Cuz it would take a genius to figure out who you're talking about when you say "it was Wilson's wife who woeks at the agency." Yeah, no harm no foul there.
The GOP talking points on this consist of 1. Rove was actually correcting Cooper on what would've been an inaccurate story, and 2. Wilson was discredited by the Senate, etc. etc.
On the first point, they may be right, but it was still wrong. I understand what Novak's context may have been, but it was still wrong, and it was still dirty politics. On the second point, if you re-read the intelligence committees findings, they never say that there was yellow cake in Niger, they simply say that Wilson was wrong for publicly denouncing what was perhaps a logical conclusion "based on available intelligence." Not quite the same thing.
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