Steve Malm points me to a link showing there is a story circulating that, in order to get revenge—and to send a message to anyone else who would cross them—the Bush administration recently “outed” a CIA agent because her husband was speaking critically of the President and his claims regarding Iraq.

If true, this is one of the highest crimes I can imagine a President commiting and particularly scary in that it indicates the lengths he will go to silence the opposition.

My speculation that Bush might one day decide having the Supreme Court place him in the White House is not enough and that he might actually just declare himself President for life “in the interests of national security” don’t seem to me so far-fetched anymore…