The Good News and the Bad

First the good news: as pointed out at ABC News' The Note, re: the Plame/Rove/Libby/Cooper/Novak story...

"For a case predicted to chill the use of anonymous sources, we've certainly seen more than our share of "lawyers who spoke on the condition that their names not be revealed because they were discussing secret grand jury testimony."

Now the bad news. Two different sets of think tanks, in three different countries, come up with research and conclusions that strongly suggest the war in Iraq has created, encouraged, increased terrorism, both in Iraq and elsewhere. The British reports have been covered in the American media, at least to the extent, on cable news, of airing the airy dismissals of them by British cabinet ministers. CNN's hour of news produced by its international unit actually had a researcher for the British think tank on air--an audacious notion not to be repeated by its domestic cousin, I'll bet (not enough "fun" for Mr. Klein's anchors?). The Saudi and Israeli work doesn't seem to have broken through. Yet. Maybe if they were sourced more anonymously...