What is going on with Michael Kinsley? He has come out against the liberal media establishment at the NYTimes for its hypocritical stance on the Plame/Wilson scandal

When Robert Novak first reported that people in the Bush White House had identified Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative, the New York Times was in high dudgeon. Plame is married to Joseph Wilson, a former State Department official who went to Niger in search of evidence for the Iraq war, and then wrote (in the New York Times) that he couldn’t find much. Outing Wilson’s wife appeared to be the Bush administration’s revenge.

The New York Times editorialized: “If someone at the White House … revealed the name of a CIA operative to … stifle dissent over Iraq policy, that in itself would be a serious assault on free speech and an egregious abuse of power.” It called Bush’s “blanket denial” a “coverup” that might be worse than the offense.
It looks as if what the New York Times found so alarming is exactly what happened. The coverup is crumbling. Wrongdoers may be exposed and punished. All no thanks to the New York Times. If the world worked as the New York Times thinks it should, the coverup would be rock-solid.

So the noble principle for which New York Times reporter Judith Miller — egged on by her employer — now sits in jail is the right of journalists to participate in efforts to stifle dissent, censor free speech, abuse power, and then cover it all up. No? Well, not exactly.

The true story here? Adding to my previous post I see emerging a story about a career CIA employee who tried to manipulate public opinion by sending her husband on a pretend fact finding mission in order for him to write their preferred editorial supporting the continued existance of the Hussein Regime….

Now that is a story, wouldn’t you think?