Tom Paine
by Russ Baker

10/27/05

"Perhaps by the time you read this, you will know the outcome of Patrick Fitzgerald's inquiries into the so-called Valerie Plame Affair. Perhaps, up until that announcement came or comes, you have resisted planning, oh, say, a, cigarettes-in-prison fund for Karl Rove. But some won't wait. Everyone with a vested interest in minimizing the significance of any outcome -- i.e. anyone who goes down with the good ship Bushypop, from hack legislators to hack pundits to hack political hacks -- has spent the past week or so frantically digging through their chest of hoary excuses. Perhaps it is from a subconscious sense of guilt, perhaps it is just good political sense. Whatever, we're too far along in the public debate about honesty and trust to let the spin go unchallenged. So here are some examples of what we're already seeing, some things we might expect to see, and some reasonable quick-responses to them...

http://tinyurl.com/8otvl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp