Plame Out

Hitchins 'flips' again

Just days after he famously flipped Hezbocomic Bill Maher's trained seals, Christopher Hitchins does the same thing to Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Colin Powell, and Richard Armitage. Although figuratively, his message is no less obvious - these are disgusting people.  I would love to see Plame and Wilson brought before a moot court (or even better, the real deal).  I'm certain I can make a better case for treason, and their execution, than you can in defense. I'm also oddly satisfied.  While the media were going ga-ga over Colin Powell - for the past 15 years,  he made my skin crawl.  I was right. As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president's war policy. (His and Powell's—and George Tenet's—fingerprints are all over Bob Woodward's "insider" accounts of post-9/11 policy planning, which helps clear up another nonmystery: Woodward's revelation several months ago that he had known all along about the Wilson-Plame connection and considered it to be no big deal.) - Plame Out Since this was a left media production, there will be no public mea culpa. The damage is done.  Click-click.