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Joe Wilson does not want to testify in the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby which, to the newsmedia, has become “The CIA Leak Trial.” Why not?

When Democrats summon scandals, they need to do a more thorough job of thinking things through. The Valerie Plame Game is one example — why accuse the White House of outing that particular CIA agent whose husband’s trip to Niger bulwarked, rather than undermined, the case for war? (It shows that the party’s strategy men pay more attention to the opinion page of The New York Times, on which Wilson misrepresented his findings, than the content of those findings.)

The other surging news item today concerns a similar example — Sandy Berger, the Clinton national security man who has been convicted of pilfering classified documents relating to the Clinton administration’s prosecution of the War of Terror before we called it that — before September 11. Democrats (here is Keith Olbermann doing an especially inartful job of it) desire to say that the Bush administration ought to have prevented the September 11 attacks, but flubbed the obvious riposte: What about the man who was in office for the eight years prior to 9/11 and under whom America suffered many Islamist attacks? What about Clinton?

Flubbed it, so Berger needs to rip to pieces classified documents. What is this, amateur hour?