Reply #70: Editor and Publisher had some great commentary on it as well [View All]

[MADem]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001261586
...I’m proud to say that I was the first to print the full text of the letter, at E&P Online, early last Saturday. It had appeared until then only in PDF form on The New York Times site. Within hours, the blogs were linking, and posters were finding codes and conspiracies in Scooter’s suggestion that the aspens that Judy supposedly knows and loves out West would be “turning” together this fall...Some bloggers recalled a significant meeting of neo-cons and/or Iraqi exiles in Aspen, Colo., that Miller did might have attended. And so on.

I scoffed at first, but today I read a confidential letter from a top Washington editor who seemed to think there was something to this code business. So, silly me for thinking otherwise about Libby’s closing passage: "Your reporting, and you, are missed. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life."

One blogger declared that Libby and Miller had obviously conspired to nail Karl Rove: “Since all neo-cons are connected by their roots and grow in clusters, why pull the roots out of two neo-cons, when you can pull the roots out of only one (Karl Rove) and overall still have a healthier forest of (neo-cons) aspens.”

Above ground, columnist Gene Lyons pondered “that metaphor for a moment” and then decided: “Here’s all I know: If Hillary Clinton had written Susan McDougal a letter like that, the Washington press would have exploded with indignation. Or would the TV talking heads be predicting indictments?” ....

Now, the question is, who did she turn on? Who is the designated fall guy? And who tipped her to get ready--Bolton???