Plamesville Diary: Cover-Up!

I sort of expected today to be rather quiet in Plamesville, with nothing to listen to but arguments back and forth about the journalistic ethics of either revealing your sources or compounding, by silence, a serious crime of which your sources tried to make you an instrument. I figured I could report that, make fun of the Wall Street Journal for openly rooting for whoever did it to get away with it, and get to bed early for once.

No such luck.

Instead, the town was rocked by two bombshell announcements, one of them seemingly designed to distract attention from the other.

In the news likely to dominate the current news cycle, the President, whose supporters have been arguing for ten days now that revealing Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA undercover officer was somehow not a crime, calmly announced that it was, indeed, a crime.
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If you're not old enough to remember Watergate, and have been feeling bad about missing it, you should start feeling better. Listen closely, and you can hear John Mitchell's growl and the voice of White House Counsel John Dean saying to Sam Ervin, "And then I told the President..."
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