Following up on Mike's post about the various people Obama has thrown under the bus, it does seem that there's an unusual amount of handwringing going on about Greg Craig, or at least about the manner in which he was thrown, through a series of well-orchestrated leaks. One of the most overwrought bits comes Steve Clemons who, in a Daily Beast piece titled "The Assassination of Greg Craig," writes:
What just happened to Gregory Craig should not have happened in Obama Land. It’s something from what Dick Cheney would have called “The Dark Side”--where insinuation and character assassination were leaked to undermine a foe. Think of the manner in which Scooter Libby and Karl Rove promulgated the revelation that Bush administration thorn Joe Wilson was married to a CIA covert operative.
This seems a bit much, no?
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A bit much? It's flagrantly dishonest bullshit that, among other sleaze, attempts to perpetuate the Affaire Le Plame in the face of all the known facts.
For example, Plame wasn't covert; Wilson was such a clown nothing the Administration was likely to do could discredit him more than he was already managing on his own; there is not a shred of evidence that "Bush/Cheney" even noticed Wilson, much less sought to discredit him; and finally, the "leak" turned out to be not Scooter Libby but Dick Armitage, who was about as opposed to the Iraq invasion as many of the ignoramuses who still insist on the fantasy version of this story. All of these facts have been widely reported.
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A bit much? It's flagrantly dishonest bullshit that, among other sleaze, attempts to perpetuate the Affaire Le Plame in the face of all the known facts.
For example, Plame wasn't covert; Wilson was such a clown nothing the Administration was likely to do could discredit him more than he was already managing on his own; there is not a shred of evidence that "Bush/Cheney" even noticed Wilson, much less sought to discredit him; and finally, the "leak" turned out to be not Scooter Libby but Dick Armitage, who was about as opposed to the Iraq invasion as many of the ignoramuses who still insist on the fantasy version of this story. All of these facts have been widely reported.
At the end of the day, this episode has all the characteristics of a CIA operation run, successfully, against the White House.