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[geekchick]

Today is Setting Orange, day 59 in the season of Confusion, 3269.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/07/23/nixonian/index.html

For a day or two the talk-radio morons roasted Kofman, but he will suffer no permanent damage. More sinister was the attack on former Ambassador Joe Wilson, whose recent revelations about the Niger uranium fraud badly damaged White House credibility. In a July 14 column about Wilson, Robert Novak revealed that the ex-diplomat's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA operative working to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Novak quoted "senior administration officials" about Plame, whom they seem to blame for sending her husband to Niger on the mission that proved so embarrassing to Bush. This attempt to damage the wife of a White House critic by revealing her status as a CIA operative is not only nasty, it puts her at risk and is very likely illegal.

And boy does the new press secretary sound outraged about the whole thing. *cough*