Monday, September 26, 2005
Convenient Discretion: The Power of Anonymity
I'll say this for them: they're consistent across the board.
First, from mid-summer (Washington Post, July 11, headline "Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says"):
Presumably, it's safe then to call for the overthrow of the government as long as we don't name any names.
Conservatives Rove Valerie Plame Dover School Board Evolution Intelligent Design Anonymity Consistency
First, from mid-summer (Washington Post, July 11, headline "Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says"):
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified as a covert agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer said yesterday that his client did not identify her by name.And now we have this. It comes from a New York Times piece about the Dover (Pennsylvania) School Board "teach intelligent design in science class" court case, which begins today:
[Richard] Thompson [co-founder of the Thomas More Law Center and defense attorney for the school board] said his side would prove that intelligent design was not creationism because it did not mention God or the Bible and never posited the creator's identity.(Note: The Thomas More Law Center named here is unaffiliated with the Thomas More Center, which seems to have nothing to do with Thompson's agenda, at least explicitly.)
Presumably, it's safe then to call for the overthrow of the government as long as we don't name any names.
Conservatives Rove Valerie Plame Dover School Board Evolution Intelligent Design Anonymity Consistency 
