the GOP has developed a new talking point in response to the burgeoning Plame investigation - "the criminalization of politics". this new meme has been mentioned some 30 times in the past few weeks, but only in one place: you guessed it - Fox News (surprise!). see the birth of a talking point
here.
meanwhile, apparently the insider who has flipped is John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from the offices of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton. according to
MSNBC, via the
Carpetbagger Report:
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Hannah was a "principal point of contact" for (dubious) intelligence generated by the controversial Iraqi National Congress before the U.S. invasion began. In other words, when the White House needed "proof" about Iraqi WMD and connections to terrorism, it relied on defectors' bogus claims — which were given directly to Hannah — to make the case that the war was necessary.
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