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Friday, July 15, 2005Asks the mighty Kaufiles (on July 14 at around 4pm):Isn't this an obvious point that hasn't been made about Joseph Wilson and the Rove/Plame controversy: If you accept an assignment to investigate possible WMD-related activity in Niger on behalf of the CIA, and your wife works at the CIA, shouldn't you think before you make your CIA mission the subject of a high-profile New York Times op-ed piece that there might be the eensiest weensiest chance that in the course of the ensuing controversy your wife's CIA connection might come out in public?Of course the point has been made out on the tail end of the blogosphere. Glad the news has reached the head. The TurkeyBlog, for example, wrote way back on the 12th: Who's responsible for leaking Plame's identity? Rove - and Wilson and PlameWe mention this not for the sake of small blogger triumphalism (well, maybe), but because there are probably lots of folks who had this thought and even tossed it up on a weblog. With any luck, the tendency for thoughts on small weblogs showing up on bigger sites and in more powerful venues means this blogosphere thingy is poised to seriously change the culture, not just because blogs keep the pressure on but because they keep ideas out there that other people latch onto, even unconsciously. Eventually, the ideas get to someone with a serious platform, at which point it can be fun to think, "Hey, that's what I said all along," the way one might fancy being, say, the real if unremarked inventor of the pet rock or television remote. (By the way, I'm certain this second point has been made better elsewhere before.) 
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