must read ABC media insider on traitorgaters

[grasswire]

Monday's insider newsletter from ABC News has a lot of insight into traitorgate.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

It might not be fair and it might not be right, but 480 members out of the Gang of 500 have the same theory about what happened, and The Note's strong belief in the First Amendment makes us duty bound to tell you about this operating premise.

Based on the original Novak story; on the language in yesterday's Washington Post story; on the "kind" of people Novak talks to; on the prophetic warnings of Wayne Slater; and on the fact that CIA agents have memories and the capacity to hold grudges nearly as long as the Bush family — based on all that, here's what people are thinking:

Two White House officials lashed out at Wilson, hoping to smear him in the minds of enough elite reporters to discredit him before his platform grew. They didn't want his wife's name out there in the public domain, so much as they wanted it in the brains of gatekeeping reporters.

(snip)

Since several of you have asked: the THEORETICAL reason the White House would have had to try to nip Wilson stories in the bud by putting out the fact that his wife is a CIA operative would be to try to discredit Wilson by saying he only got the assignment because of his wife, and that he would have been too captive to the CIA mindset on (read: against) the war.

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[grasswire]

1. one more tiny snip

White House officials who might have legal or political exposure on this are going to have to decide whether to hire lawyers or not, and the White House counsel's office is going to have to decide what legal help they can and should provide to officials if and when the DOJ wants to talk to them.

That means that the '90s practice of every Washington bureau of calling members of the bar to see who has hired whom is about to heat back up. The first one to report someone hiring a criminal lawyer wins a prize, as does the first person who develops that lawyer as a source on all this.

[Democat]

2. Like every other Bush scandal, this will probably die in a week

The Republican owned media has no interest in the truth about Bush. Let's have more lies about Clinton instead!

[Bozita]

3. For 2.5 months, this was simmering.

Now, it's steaming.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I suspect the first one to do such

Will be Karl Rove... quite seriously

[radfringe]

4. I'm just waiting to see how long

it's going to take Whistleass Inc. to blame Clinton for this...

remember, this is a party that stresses taking responsibility, but excluded themselves from complying...

perhaps they need a new slogan "GOP - it's never our fault"

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. not quite

GOP... the buck stops somewhere else

Sounds better