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Here’s another example of how hazardous it can be to start typing on your keyboard without first putting the key in the ignition of your brain.

Yesterday in my column in The Hill, I noted that two “senior administration officials” blew the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame in their effort to discredit her husband Joseph Wilson, the retired diplomat who went on the mission to Niger. We know they were two “senior administration officials” because they leaked the information to Robert Novak and that’s the phrase Novak used to describe them in his column.

In the column I said “the president should find out who they are, reprimand them or, preferably, fire them.”

This evening I got this edgy email from Bryan M.

If you think the President should fire someone aren’t you obligated to tell him who it is he should fire? Or does it matter to you? If he fired two people at random would that be ok?

A mind, as they say, is a terrible thing to waste. Just not using it can be pretty bad too.

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