The Nattering Nabob

The right-wingers have begun to trumpet this.

Contributor: WILSON, VALERIE E MS
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
Occupation: BREWSTER-JENNINGS & ASSOC.
Date: 4/22/1999
Amount: $1,000
Recipient: Gore, Al

Apparently, Valerie Plame contibuted a thousand bucks to Al Gore.

WHY this is damning, I'm not exactly sure. I contributed money to Al Gore, too, along with about a hundred million other Americans. I guess, according to the neocon death cult, that makes it possible to condemn everything else all hundred million have to say, including, - oh, I don't know - flowers smell nice.

But, while this sort of desperate attempt to sow doubt and smear is rather pathetic, they missed the obvious:

The fact that Plame listed "BREWSTER-JENNINGS & ASSOC." - the CIA's front company - as her employer proves that she was, indeed, a covert operative whose exposure would be a crime. If she wasn't covert, she would have listed the CIA as her employer.

Ooooops.