the real victims

At worst, the Plame affair is a “petty conspiracy,” said Frank Rich in The New York Times.

But the much “larger plot” at the heart of this case was the White House’s deliberate attempt to “market” the Iraq war by convincing the American public that Saddam was building nuclear weapons.

Wilson got in the way of that fiction, which is why he was targeted for defamation. But the real victim isn’t Wilson or his wife. “It’s the nation.”