Disinformation Throat

Atrios points to the main$tream media spin on Bob Woodward's testimony that he learned of Plame pre-Libby and casually two years ago. Steve Clemons has the details, and dismisses it as vanity. I wonder...

Woodward seems to relish dropping this bombshell, but it's curious to note there is a good question as to its' timing. And exactly who it is being dropped on. Woodward has been trying to muddy the waters for some time now, trying support (without overtly doing so) Libby's position that the leak came from journalists first.

W. Mark Felt "came out" as Deep Throat. A fitting role perhaps for someone who looked on J. Edgar Hoover as a mentor? I'm using that as a pun in more ways than one: Felt seems to be one who would fall on his own sword for the Company's good- particularly if there was a neat profit to be made. Woodward certainly has been a Company man since 2000. Of course, Woodward acknowledged Felt as his source.

Big Time Dick seems to be the target of Fitzgerald's investigation, and certainly the process of elimination implicates him. Some rumors suggest otherwise. But was Woodward's source concerning the identity of Valerie Plame the real Deep Throat? Or Felt? Or someone else? Someone who was privy to the inner workings of both the Company and the Agency- and gets briefed on a daily basis?

Let's reiterate here: what's working against Dear Leader now is only in part the progressives and the Democrats. What's working against Dear Leader often doesn't mind the idea of Hegemony. It just doesn't appreciate the arbitrary Rule of Commander Cuckoobananas.