RE: [Futurework] Hey, war's good for business!

[Karen Watters Cole]

I don’t really know if there is a connection or not to the David Kelly affair in the UK, but Paul Krugman writes in today’s column that the Bush2 administration is trying to discredit the former diplomat, Joseph Wilson, who “outed” himself as the unnamed official who was sent to Niger to investigate the now repudiated intelligence claim cited in the SOU address.  It seems his wife is/was a CIA operative who has now been exposed and Krugman does not hesitate to call this unpatriotic, if not a criminal act to do so.  - KWC   … administration allies have sought to discredit him — it's unpleasant stuff. But here's the kicker: both the columnist Robert Novak and Time magazine say that administration officials told them that they believed that Mr. Wilson had been chosen through the influence of his wife, whom they identified as a C.I.A. operative.   Think about that: if their characterization of Mr. Wilson's wife is true (he refuses to confirm or deny it), Bush administration officials have exposed the identity of a covert operative. That happens to be a criminal act; it's also definitely unpatriotic.   So why would they do such a thing? Partly, perhaps, to punish Mr. Wilson, but also to send a message.   And that should alarm us. We've just seen how politicized, cooked intelligence can damage our national interest.  Yet the Wilson affair suggests that the administration intends to continue pressuring analysts to tell it what it wants to hear.     See Who’s Unpatriotic Now?  @ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/opinion/22KRUG.html?hp