“On July 16 [2003], [David] Corn posted a piece on The Nation’s Web site. Called ‘A White House Smear,’ it began, ‘Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security–and break the law–in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?’ ”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 290