{"id":200,"date":"2003-09-30T00:23:33","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:22","slug":"the_plame_affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"The Plame Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rest of the blogoverse is all over the Valerie Plame<\/a> case, so I won’t bother laying out the facts for you. Kevin Drum, at Calpundit<\/a> has it from one side, and Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit<\/a>, has it from the other.<\/p>\n

In this case, I’m leaning toward Kevin; while the facts aren’t quite clear yet, this is something that an Administration that cared about credibility (and national security) ought to jump to attention to come clean on. The current quote from the NY Times: “The White House said today that it was “ridiculous” for anyone to suggest that President Bush’s top political adviser had leaked secret information in an effort to discredit an outspoken critic of Mr. Bush’s policy on Iraq.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

Sorry, that just doesn’t cut it.<\/p>\n

In a world where ‘We can fact check your ass<\/i>‘ is a given, the White House needs to do more than indignantly protest to make it’s point on this. If no one did it, demand to know who Novak claims<\/b> did it, offer the call logs and kick some partisan ass. If someone did it, apologize and take them to the woodshed if you won’t send them out the door.<\/p>\n

Bush’s strongest asset is his reputation for blunt candor. Once that goes…<\/p>\n

So: speak up<\/b>, Mr. President. We’re waiting to hear what you have to say.<\/p>\n

JK UPDATE:<\/b> Mader Blog has some really good links<\/a>. Hey, isn’t he Canadian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speak up, Mr. President. We’re waiting to hear what you have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}