Reply #10: Sell the administration's defense, hide the facts.

[teryang]

Prior Post reporting circuitously minimized. Since when are the facts (only those spun favorably for the administration) in on ongoing grand jury investigation published in the press?

<In October, The Post reported that "on July 12, two days before Novak's column, a Post reporter was told by an administration official that the White House had not paid attention to the former ambassador's CIA-sponsored trip to Niger because it was set up as a boondoggle by his wife, an analyst with the agency working on weapons of mass destruction."

The article said Plame's name was not mentioned and the purpose of the disclosure was to cast doubt on Wilson's report rather than reveal her identity...>

Just who is Wilson's wife, someone other Ms. Plame? Is this how they claim they didn't have specific intent? That's pretty weak. Why isn't the reporter in the July 12 story identified? Why isn't the reporter's source identified?