{"id":3460,"date":"2005-07-15T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/15\/sort-of-an-obvious-point-actually\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T10:17:11","slug":"sort-of-an-obvious-point-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/sort-of-an-obvious-point-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort of an obvious point, actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMickey Kaus says the thing <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2122431\/\">that had to be said about Wilsongate:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Isn&#8217;t this an obvious point that hasn&#8217;t been made about Joseph Wilson and the Rove\/Plame controversy:<\/strong> If you accept an assignment to investigate possible WMD-related activity in Niger on behalf of the CIA, and your wife works at the CIA, shouldn&#8217;t you think before you make your CIA mission the subject of a high-profile New York Times op-ed piece that there might be the eensiest weensiest chance that in the course of the ensuing controversy your wife&#8217;s CIA connection might come out in public? <strong>How could Wilson not have expected his wife&#8217;s job to become the buzz of Washington in fairly short order?<\/strong> &#8230; However serious her outing was&#8211;and there are those eight redacted pages to worry about&#8211;doesn&#8217;t Wilson bear some substantial responsibility for it as well as whoever in the administration eventually &#8220;outed&#8221; her to reporters? &#8230; You can&#8217;t have it all, we are often told. When you marry a covert CIA agent, maybe there are some things you have to give up. Like going on Meet the Press to talk about the CIA! &#8230;3:40 P.M.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obvious to you and me, but not to the Huffy-Puffies.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus says the thing that had to be said about Wilsongate: Isn&#8217;t this an obvious point that hasn&#8217;t been made about Joseph Wilson and the Rove\/Plame controversy: If you accept an assignment to investigate possible WMD-related activity in Niger on behalf of the CIA, and your wife works at the CIA, shouldn&#8217;t you think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/sort-of-an-obvious-point-actually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sort of an obvious point, actually&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-TO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}