Letters to the Editor
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Who got hit in the Plame case?
We presume, according to the news reports and various spin, that Joe was the one who got hit when Valerie got outted. But let's think for a moment. Valerie was a senior WMD analyst in the Agency that contested the Whitehouse propaganda on Iraqi WMD. Rather than Valerie being the means to hit Joe, isn't it more likely that Joe was the convenient means to hit Valerie? When he went to Niger and then wrote about it, she got taken down for something we haven't heard about yet, on the spin that he was the target. It was quite serious indeed, to take out a senior CIA oponent on this core WMD question, but the spin is that it was just a cheap trick against a freelance investigator who spoke out of turn. Cheney knew quit well which of the two was the more dangerous to the his aganda, and he used him to get her.