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Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on March 8, 2007

For the record, you should check out this post by McQ over at QandO. McQ takes on the new "truth" that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were in "reality" a bunch of liars.

Also worth reading is this editorial on the verdict in the Libby case from The Washington Post. An excerpt:

Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging that the Bush administration had "twisted," if not invented, facts in making the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003, op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

I can only hope that this statement later in the editorial turns out to be true: Wilson "will be remembered as a blowhard." Unfortunately, the early returns don't appear to support that contention.

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