Mal Contends  - The truth won, if your scoreboard is reality.

When the Bush rightwingers betrayed national security and blew the cover of a non-official cover CIA officer involved in keeping nuclear weapons technology out of the hands of countries like Iran, The Nation's (07/16/2003) David Corn (that crazy leftist, bring back HUAC) sounded the alarm.

As the first journalist to point out what amounts to treason, Corn deserves a few I-told-you-sos. And Corn sets the record straight in his piece, Plamegate Finale: We Were Right; They Were Wrong.

(Corn's) piece was the first to identify the leak as a possible White House crime and the first to characterize the leak as evidence that within the Bush administration political expedience trumped national security.

Continues Corn:

It's one of those things we don't like to talk about, but Dick Cheney got his first taste of politics in Wisconsin, back in the time of Gov. Warren Knowles.

Maybe that's why people with Wisconsin connections keep writing about him.

The latest is Steven Hayes, a Wauwatosa native who writes for The Weekly Standard, one of the right wing's favorite rags. He's written a new Cheney bio, with a lot of access to Cheney's inner circle and the man himself. Craig Gilbert writes about it in the Journal Sentinel.

Cheney was pretty sure he'd like Hayes's book better than the one written by another Wisconsinite, John Nichols of the Capital Times and The Nation.

Nichols's book, as unauthorized as they come, is entitled, "Dick: The Man Who Is President."