larisa / ledeen

Part 2 of larisa's interview with Ledeen is out at rawstory - there's not a lot that i could discern on first read - although it's a fascinating dance between the two of them. This was interesting:

Larisa: Bush’s speech, or rather those 16 words, were pulled after it was revealed that they were based on bogus sources and documents. In fact, it was because of former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon Joe Wilson’s now well known op-ed discrediting the uranium claim that both Hadley and former CIA Director George Tenet ran to take responsibility for the 16 words, after they were pulled in a panic.

Ledeen: But the anti-Bush brigade was so eager to push their “Bush lied, people died” mantra, that they kept on acting as if the Niger Documents were really important. I suppose it’s because they got hoodwinked by Wilson, don’t you think?

It's always difficult to differentiate between when Ledeen is throwing sand and throwing bombs - this very probably the former, and i'm not sure that Wilson ever pushed the story that the Niger documents were important... still - it's an odd comment.

I'll take a closer look at the interview later