In his “My Word” segment this afternoon,
Fox News pundit John Gibson applauded the White House’s
decision to blow the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
“I’m the guy who said a long, long time ago that whoever
outed Valerie Plame should get a medal,” Gibson said. “And
if it was Karl Rove, I’d pin it on him myself.” Gibson
argued the outing of Plame was justified because “this was
about an anti-Bush cabal at the CIA” that needed to be “rooted
out.”
Watch it:
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Given the standards that Bush has set for medals
(see Norman Podhoretz, George Tenet, and Paul Bremer), it certainly
wouldn’t be outside the bounds of White House ethics to
find a way to reward “the most insidious of traitors.”
UPDATE: After revealing Bush was “involved” in distributing
“false information” about who leaked Plame’s
identity, Scott McClellan was doing some damage control today.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs
Books, which is publishing McClellan’s book in April, told
NBC that McClellan “did not intend to suggest Bush lied
to him.”
