Mind Messing

I don't know about you, but even though I have followed the so-called Valerie Plame leak at least peripherally from its inception, I can't make heads nor tails out of what the president is trying to tell us about why he took part in it.

Maybe a president, since he decides what will be classified, has the authority to declassify anything anytime he wants in any way he wants, but that seems somewhat beside the point in this instance. We all heard him say he hates and disapproves of leaks, and this was a serious matter, and he was telling everyone on his staff to cooperate fully with the investigation, and if it turned out that anyone on his staff was involved - or was that convicted? - they would be fired.

So now he is asking us to believe this was a clever trick he used to get out information necessary for people to understand his policies? This is mind messing of the first order.

And it does nothing to boost one's confidence in the man's ability to manage our relations with a dangerous country like Iran.

Is it too early to call for impeachment to begin before this man takes us over the edge?