Reply #9: Wilson had also [View All]

[H2O Man]

approached people in the State Department and some senators. The dark forces in the White House had to be fuming. The degree of their response is the clearest indicator of how seriously they took the threat Wilson posed.

They are vicious, vile snakes. However, these type of behaviors can (and do) show up in the everyday world of many other people. How many DUers have had to deal with such snakes in their employment, perhaps at a state agency or a county/city level? I think that makes the discussion of the psychological factors both fascinating and valuable.

For example, there are those who are calculating in their ability to manipulate their more impulsive co-workers. In a group the size of the WHIG, it is simply not possible that everyone had the same motives, means, or goals. Might a Lewis Libby recognize that Karl would run with the information on Valerie Plame, if given some private encouragement by the towering figure, Dick Cheney?