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Thursday August 23rd, 2007 1:04 AM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Internet, Valerie Plame

It was explained on Wikipedia, that’s how. TNR’s Douglas Wokl has the full spread:

valerie_plame.JPGGraceful writing takes a distant second place to neutrality. The language of the “Plame affair” article, like a lot of Wikipedia, is flatly declarative, not particularly quotable and occasionally afflicted with wobbly construction. (A typical sentence: “It is the only indictment brought by the grand jury, and Fitzgerald has stated that he does not expect to be indicting anyone else, citing repeatedly Libby’s obstruction of justice as a main impediment to finding out what happened in investigating the leak of Valerie Wilson’s classified, covert CIA identity.” ) And so the entry is an obstacle course of little infelicities and colorless clots of subclauses, from the first paragraph’s factual but pace-dragging citation of Joe Wilson’s memoir The Politics of Truth to the concluding section, headlined “Other perspectives on the CIA leak scandal,” which reads (following a link to “Alternate theories regarding the CIA leak scandal” ) in its entirety: “Since the CIA leak scandal became public knowledge, commentators began presenting multiple and often highly-contested perspectives on it in various media.” You don’t say.

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