Christopher Hitchens has an article on the Valerie Plame controversy at Slate. He is reacting to a recent book, Hubris, written by David Corn and Michael Isikoff examining the affair. Needless to say he has no use for their hypocrisy and incorrect cclaims throughout the affair. It was Richard Armitage who leaked Plame's name, not someone in the Bush White House.
What does emerge from Hubris is further confirmation of what we knew all along: the extraordinary venom of the interdepartmental rivalry that has characterized this administration. In particular, the bureaucracy at the State Department and the CIA appear to have used the indiscretion of Armitage to revenge themselves on the "neoconservatives" who had been advocating the removal of Saddam Hussein. Armitage identified himself to Colin Powell as Novak's source before the Fitzgerald inquiry had even been set on foot. The whole thing could—and should—have ended right there. But now read this and rub your eyes: William Howard Taft, the State Department's lawyer---I will let those interested read the rest of the story.
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