Hitchens Take on Nada-Gate

Hitch lays it out in plain language:

But the coverage of this non-storm in an un-teacup has gone far beyond the fantasy of a Rovean hidden hand. Supposedly responsible journalists are now writing as if there was never any problem with Saddam's attempt to acquire yellowcake (or his regime's now-proven concealment of a nuclear centrifuge, or his regime's now-proven attempt to buy long-range missiles off the shelf from North Korea as late as March 2003). In the same way, the carefully phrased yet indistinct statement of the 9/11 Commission that Saddam had no proven "operational" relationship with al-Qaida has mutated lazily into the belief that there were no contacts or exchanges at all, which the commission by no means asserts and which in any case by no means possesses the merit of being true. The CIA got everything wrong before 9/11, and thereafter. It was conditioned by its own culture to see no evil. It regularly leaked—see any of Bob Woodward's narratives—against the administration. Now it, and its partisans and publicity-famished husband-and-wife teams, want to imprison or depose people who leak back at it. No, thanks. Many journalists are rightly appalled at Time magazine's collusion with a prosecutor who has proved no crime and identified no victim. Far worse is the willingness of the New York Times to accept the demented premise of a prosecutor who has put one of its own writers behind bars.

Read the entire essay of course.

What has become of the left that a true leftist such as Christopher Hitchens is one of the most read writers by those in the center or on the right? He is a true "reality based" journalist who sees what I and many on the center right see. The opposition party is not one. They have nothing to say in the debate. This whole story is a non-issue that is taking away from the important reporting that the MSM should be doing.

As Hitch says; there is no victim and there is no crime. Perhaps the left will finally come to their collective senses one day, but I highly doubt it.