Top White officials blew the identity of an undercover CIA agent, potentially endangering both lives and intelligence operations, solely to gain political payback against a guy who had risen to the top of their enemies list.

Now, that's not hard to understand, is it?

Kevin also's got a post which links to articles in the Big 4 of conservative print media outlets (Washington Times, National Review, Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal), with excerpts from each. He points out that half of them (the Times and the Standard) think that it's a serious thing, while the other two hew to the right-wing party line.

And what's more, in another post, he does a good job summing up the evidence for whether Plame was an "operative" or an "analyst".

Oh, what the heck, just go read CalPundit every day, as I do.


(I've said it before, and it's true, one thing that discouraged me from starting a blog was that I agreed with practically everything Kevin writes, so there seemed little need for me to blog.

What, then, is the raison d'etre for unfutz? Well, sometimes -- such as now, when it's hard to find the time to post-- it doesn't seem to have one at all, but, ultimately, it's to give me an outlet so I don't end up screaming back at the TV every day.

Next week, we'll be going into crunch time on The Violet Hour, the "technical rehearsals" which immediately precede our first preview peformance, during which it's hard to find the time to sleep, let alone do anything extraneous to the show, so I doubt I'll be posting much then, but once the show has opened, things will calm down somewhat, and we'll see how things go.

If it turns out that I really don't have the time necessary to sustain this site, I guess I'll close it down, disappointing my dozen or so Loyal Readers, but I don't think that will need to happen.)

Update: I neglected to state the obvious, that the entire point of unfutz is to allow me a forum through which I can singlehandedly (OK, with much help from My Friend Roger and others as well) solve the world's problems -- hence the name of the blog.

I'll be getting to it any day now.