It's ...     Attack Bill Safire Day:

Eric Alterman is "filled with despair".

Josh Marshall says that Safire's latest essay contains "one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life"

Josh Marshall reprints a howler by Safire from January (everything he predicted would happen, didn't).

The Rittenhouse Review says of Safire, "It's all in his head".

Busy, busy, busy distills Safire's essay down to a single ("shorter®") sentence.


Our take is that Safire is completely unreliable. But more than that, he continues to push notions that nobody else in the intelligence community believes. E.g. from his latest: (emphasis added)

A series of murders of "collaborators" would continue to intimidate Iraqi scientists and officers who know about W.M.D. and links to Al Qaeda ...

posted by Quiddity at 7/21/2003 01:35:00 PM