Posted by zeugma on July 25, 2008, at 22:19:02
In reply to President Bush needs another finger in the dike, posted by zeugma on May 5, 2006, at 16:52:16
I read Valerie Plame's book "Fair Game" recently, and she has quite a bit to say about Porter Goss. Her book is also extensively redacted, because of CIA regulations. The redactions in this post are simply an attempt to stylistically imitate her work.
I recommend the book highly, redactions and all. (Roland Barthes would call it a very "readerly" text, and classical critics would say the effect is sublime, because the author is literally trying to say the unsayable.) And it is true that some things must be removed from [REDACTED]texts in order to retain faith in the [REDACTED].In any case Porter Goss now is on a House Ethics panel, an appointee of Nancy Pelosi, our [REDACTED] Democratic Speaker, as an ethics watchdog for our well-loved, popular, but sometimes [REDACTED], Congress. Or as Plame herself would have said, and her redactors blotted out, as an [REDACTED][REDACTED].
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