From the first time the White House was asked about exposing Valerie Plame, the answer was consistent.
As Scott McClellan said: "That is not the way this President or this White House operates."
But in the course of the Scooter Libby trial, one thing has become quite clear:
That is precisely the way this White House operates.
Faced with accusations that they had marched the country to war on evidence they knew was suspect,
White House aides evidently responded with little if any restraint in attempting to discredit their critics.
The White House's ferocity -- compounded by an easily distracted whore press corps and a Republican
Congress not the least bit interested in oversight -- successfully kept crucial information about Bush's use
and abuse of prewar intelligence out of the public sphere through the 2004 election and, arguably, to this day.
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