Rush Limbaugh read an article today by Clifford May, the totally disinterested observer of the Joseph C. Wilson IV story. Mr. May is totally disinterested, unlike Mr. Wilson who was known to have lots of connections to the Middle East, no experience, and was, in general, a dirty liberal.
Fortunately Clifford May is pretty much totally disinterested. I mean he writes for the National Review, a conservative magazine. And he founded The Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, a non-profit, "non-partisan" foundation that, coincidentally, largely follows President Bush's line (they are a bit more hardline on Saudi Arabia, which is always nice to see).
Clifford May writes about how as a Washington insider he was well aware that Wilson's wife was a CIA operative.
"On July 14, Robert Novak wrote a column in the Post and other newspapers naming Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative.
That wasn't news to me. I had been told that — but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of."
This is the entire proof that May and Rush bring to the table, suggesting that Novak's outing of May's wife was really no big deal. He heard it in such a way that he concluded that everybody knew, so everybody must have known it. Yep. Makes perfect sense.
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