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A question re L'affaire Plame
Oct. 18th, 2005 07:46 amOk, this has been bothering me since the whole thing started.
Wilson goes to Niger. He comes back, and thinks the Administration isn't playing fair with the facts.
Someone decides he's a loose cannon and needs to be discredited.
So far it all makes sense; but the next part is where I get lost, how was outing his wife supposed to discredit what he had to say? Were we supposed to think he was incapable of rational thought because his wife might have gotten him assigned to look for info? This was, after all her baliwick... so perhaps he was to dense to see the facts, and she had to spoon feed him? Or is it that her being a covert operative in some way so thorouhgly emasculates him that we can't believe what he says?
That's the part that bothers me? What real effect was supposed to come from this revelation (other than perhaps putting some people in the White House at risk of criminal charges)? I can't see anything coming out of such a plan which would actually do the White House any good.
Maybe it was a secret ploy on Bush's part to get out from under Rove's thumb, and a brilliant plan (a la the ending of, The Sting) is coming together.
But I doubt it.
Wilson goes to Niger. He comes back, and thinks the Administration isn't playing fair with the facts.
Someone decides he's a loose cannon and needs to be discredited.
So far it all makes sense; but the next part is where I get lost, how was outing his wife supposed to discredit what he had to say? Were we supposed to think he was incapable of rational thought because his wife might have gotten him assigned to look for info? This was, after all her baliwick... so perhaps he was to dense to see the facts, and she had to spoon feed him? Or is it that her being a covert operative in some way so thorouhgly emasculates him that we can't believe what he says?
That's the part that bothers me? What real effect was supposed to come from this revelation (other than perhaps putting some people in the White House at risk of criminal charges)? I can't see anything coming out of such a plan which would actually do the White House any good.
Maybe it was a secret ploy on Bush's part to get out from under Rove's thumb, and a brilliant plan (a la the ending of, The Sting) is coming together.
But I doubt it.
