Drop Names by Not Dropping Them

The Reasonable MSM finds new ways to continue splattering the carpet. BREITBART.COM has the latest from AP on "The Leak."

Condaleeza Rice didn't do it. Tell reporter Bob Woodward that Valery Plame was a CIA operative, that is. Well, that's refreshing. I hadn't even heard the inside-the-Beltway rumor that she was.

Which sounds like the point of this exoneration.

Take a closer look:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward that White House critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, a Rice aide said Saturday.

"Secretary Rice wasn't Woodward's source," Rice senior adviser Jim Wilkinson said.

Rice was President Bush's White House national security adviser in June 2003, when Woodward says a highly placed official told him of Valerie Plame's CIA connection. Woodward has said the source was someone other than I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff and the only person indicted in a federal probe of the leak case.

Rice took over from Colin Powell as the nation's top diplomat in January. She is traveling with Bush in Asia this week, as is her successor as national security adviser, Stephen Hadley.

Hadley won't say if he was Woodward's source. But Hadley volunteered on Friday that some administration officials say he's not the leaker.

Hadley was asked at a news briefing in Busan, Korea, whether he was Woodward's source.

Referring to news accounts about the case, Hadley said with a smile, "I've also seen press reports from White House officials saying that I am not one of his sources." He said he would not comment further because the CIA leak case remains under investigation.

Leaving the room, Hadley was asked if his answer amounted to a yes or a no. "It is what it is," he said.

How convenient. While the President tours Asia, the Washington Rumor mill gears into high production, and the MSM shovels coal double-time! Anything that embarrasses the President or tarnishes the administration is fair game. After all, the closest-to-Foolish White House somehow survived the political perfect storm of Katrina/Fuel-cost/Miers with a 37% approval rating. That's clearly too high to those Reasonable advocates of the Agenda.

Thus, Democrats stomp their feet in Congress and attempt to re-write history according to the Moveon.org script. The Democratic leadership advocates "Cut and Run" on the eve of Iraq's first Constitutionally established elections--while Zarqawi homicide bombs his own countrymen. Now, the Secretary of State and the Plame controversy are mentioned in the same sentence? How snivelling. How pathetic. How Reasonable.

Here's a thought: How about MSM corroberate a story with two on-the-record sources and present evidence that proves the story? Why, that might almost be journalism! Imagine that: the organs of MSM ought to report the truth, not spin the rhetoric. Perish the thought!