I’m not going to comment all that much on the Joe Wilson’s CIA Spook Wife scandal, because it seems self-evident to me that 1) It’s pretty awful, and the heads of the people responsible should roll as far as the laws of physics will allow, and 2) It’s being overblown for political purposes by the Bush Bash Brigade. Believe it or not, both 1 & 2 can be the case.
At any rate, Jim Henley offers the most plausible explanation I’ve yet seen for what the hell the administration staffer who leaked the info was likely up to. (If you ask me, the White House should be taking a lot less, er, esoteric action against the habitually incompetent George Tenet. If that guy manages to hold onto his job after both 9/11 and the no-WMDs-after-all “scandal,” the Red Sox should hire him to manage them in the post season–he’s un-curseable.)