Good catch

The loathsome John Podhoretz of NRO thinks he's got a point to make:

Here is Joseph Wilson himself, talking to Wolf Blitzer on CNN today: "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity." Read that again. Now reflect on the fact that there has been an ongoing investigation FOR TWO YEARS conducted, we were breathlessly and rather constantly told in the weeks surrounding the initial controversy, on the basis that the White House and reporters OUTED A CLANDESTINE AGENT. Now we know. She wasn't. Not then.

...now her own husband is saying it -- Valerie Plame Wilson WASN'T A CLANDESTINE AGENT AT THE TIME.

No, no, no. She WASN'T.

So what I want to know, based on simple logic, is this: When is Allen Funt going to step out from behind the lamppost and inform America that we've all been on Candid Camera?

Clif at Outside the Tent points out what's wrong with Podhoretz's "simple logic":

When Wilson says that his wife wasn’t clandestine “the day that” Novak “blew her identity,” he means that she wasn’t clandestine once Novak revealed her job. In this context “the day that” means “when” not “before.”

As in, "Ayala Cohen gave up hope of having a husband who could give her an orgasm the day she married John Podhoretz."

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