Justus For All

Christopher Hitchens recaps in Slate Magazine

Well worth reading.

I, along with many others, find David Corn’s phrasing:

one of the ironies of the Plame investigation: that the initial leak, seized on by administration critics as evidence of how far the White House was willing to go to smear an opponent, came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone.

to be ironic indeed given that Corn was the first in line of those critics mentioned.

Rush, who I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to also has an interesting perspective on the whole story.

Basically, he castigates the media for selling lies.  This relates a bit to my previous post about war reporting.  Unlike Rush, I don’t care to make any claim that anyone in the media, let alone the media as a whole, purposefully lied about this.  There is not any evidence to support that charge, and making wild claims without evidence is exactly what the media and others did wrong in the whole Plamegate fiasco.

The media must make a serious effort to report what is true.  Not lies, not guesses, not hopes, but the truth.  If they are given a story they should be skeptical and confirm it in every way they can.  If there isn’t proof, or at least reasonable evidence, then they should not present a story as being true.

(via The Anchoress)