U.S. Press Bigwigs Screw Up, Again

September 14. 2006

For the past two weeks, Washington's "conventional wisdom" crowd has been chastising anyone who ever thought that the Bush administration had willfully leaked the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame to punish her husband for criticizing the Iraq War. That "conspiracy theory" had supposedly been disproved by the admission of former State Department official Richard Armitage, who said he inadvertently blurted out the name as gossip. But now columnist Robert Novak discloses that Armitage's account was "deceptive," meaning that the U.S. press bigwigs have screwed up again.

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