Anatomy of a White House Smear, Redux
A couple of months ago, I summarized the Plame Affair best as I could speculate. A lot of new information has come to light, so I decided to update that narrative.
The Background--Niger Claims and Power Struggles
I'll start with some background. There are two reasons why members of the Bush Administration were reckless enough to out a NOC out of petty revenge.
Seeing the (Aspen) Trees that Make Up the Forest
I bypassed to the link to the Judy-Libby lawyer correspondance this early morning, thinking it'd be more boring lawyer letters. Silly me. Nothing has been boring in this Plame Affair. Thanks to pontificator for encouraging me to look further and providing the PDF link to the letters, which has been removed from the front page of the NYT (it's now two layers down attached to this story).
Much has (rightly, IMO) been
Let's Make a Deal: A Word on Judy's Timing
There's been a lot of discussion on the timing involved in Judy's deal with Fitzgerald. Was it Franklin's plea bargain? Was it DeLay's indictment? Of course, none of these make sense, since she has been working on a deal for almost a month and a half.
Actually, Murray Waas tells us what the catalyst to Judy talking was.
What Ahmed Chalabi Did While Judy Was Embedded
I was all set to write the finale to my Judy Series, when I realized I was missing one important part. In the finale, I'm going to argue that Judy's embed included responsibilities to report on Chalabi as much as report on the 75th XTF. But to make that argument, I need to review what Ahmed Chalabi during the period when Judy was an embed.
The short story is that he and