ROVE AT WAR….Howard Fineman gets it about right in Newsweek:

It’s unlikely that any White House officials considered that they were doing anything illegal in going after Joe Wilson. Indeed, the line between national security and politics had long since been all but erased by the Bush administration.

Yep.

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