…are that you should take a cue from the American trial system, and not decide an issue when all you have is testimony from the entity (or, in this case, [informal] institution) under investigation. Which is to say, if the press is under legal fire, their coverage may not be fair and factual.
Had you heard not only that no crime was committed in the communication of information between Bush administration officials and Novak, but that no crime could have been committed because the governing law gives a person a complete defense if an agent’s status has already been compromised by the government? …[T]he same media now stampeding on Rove has told a federal court that, to the contrary, they believe the CIA itself blew Plame’s cover before Rove or anyone else in the Bush administration ever spoke to Novak about her. Of course, they don’t contend the CIA did it on purpose or with malice. But neither did Rove who, unlike the CIA, appears neither to have known about nor disclosed Plame’s classified status. Yet, although the Times and its cohort have a bull’s eye on Rove’s back, they are breathtakingly silent about an apparent CIA embarrassment one that seems to be just the type of juicy story they routinely covet.Take that as you will.
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