The Plame Affair: Lies Through the Years

Arianna has some of the best and consistent coverage of The Plame Affair [Please, Ms. Huffington, we like "Plame Affair" better than PlameGate... ick] . Here, she outlines the continuation of the cascade of lies passed down through the years from the myriad of characters.

The Plame Affair illustrates the central corrosive truth of the build up to the war in Iraq. It is the embodyment of "one small lie leads to another;" it is the illustration of The Administration's cast of ideologues and their vehement desire to enact policy which has no place [the Invasion] and then to violently attack those who discount their flawed, manipulative goals. Each of these lies is a link in the chain of the coverup. Perhaps not a coverup in the sense of a criminal act [a la Watergate] but certainly a coverup of the fraudulent manipulation of this country.