The president’s partisans can’t seem to decide whether the CIA didn’t tell them what they knew or whether what they knew was bogus. Along those lines, here’s Cliff May’s opening salvo in the smear-Joseph-Wilson campaign in National Review Online. May’s final line reads: “In other words, Wilson is no disinterested career diplomat â he’s a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind. And too many in the media are helping him and allies grind it.” In response to May, Wilson tells TPM: “So those are the talking points. Good to know. Not worth responding to. The article stands, the administration has made the acknowledgement. The story is not, and never was about me. It is and has been about who put the statement in the State of the Union. I am not going to rise to bait that is clearly designed to resurrect the notion that I am the story. I am not. The story is the story.”
