I found an excellent, well reasoned letter on the Plame leak...

[FormerRepublican]

...that deserves a re-read.

Here it is:

"Dear Representatives Hayworth, Franks, King, Burgess, Chabot, Ballenger, Beauprez, Hayes, Neugebauer, Herger and Wilson:

We are in receipt of your letter of July 21, 2004, regarding The Nation Institute's Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling, which was awarded last year to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

You claim that the Institute has been "snookered" by Ambassador Wilson and "shouldn't stand for it." That is not so. We humbly suggest that you have been misinformed by staffers who have not read the full record and have presented you with selective information. Please allow us--two nonprofit organizations that seek to encourage the dissemination of important information--to provide you with a fuller picture."

http://www.nationinstitute.org/awards/letter/

When I read this letter, I wanted to jump up and down cheering. The well reasoned logic in the letter is first class. (And I loved the tell off at the end!) LOL!

[Coexist]

1. Too bad they didn't take his advice.

The end is the best!
"In your capacity as public officials devoted to truth in public discourse, we encourage you to pressure the House leadership to investigate whether the Bush White House accurately represented the intelligence on WMDs and the supposed connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. As you might know, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has postponed such an inquiry until after the election. Given that more than 1,000 Americans have been killed in a war that was (according to the Senate report you passionately cite) sold to the public with bad information, you have a profound constitutional duty to rise above partisan inhibitions and to unite in a call for a complete and truthful accounting.

Please join us in requesting an immediate Congressional investigation into how the Bush Administration handled and depicted the intelligence it received before the war. We look forward to your response."

[Jack Rabbit]

2. May the constituants of those congressmen give them an award . . .

. . . retirement after the next election.