Ignore the Men Behind the Curtain. And What They’re Saying. And Not Doing.

First it's the frantic e-mails from FEMA official Marty Bahamonde to his boss Michael Brown about conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans (eating MREs and shitting in hallways) while Brown was busy grubbing in Baton Rouge. And now we've got revelations that Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby might have discussed the Plame leak . . . but only talked about what they'd heard from reporters. Mmmm-hmmm. Yeah. We're buying that one.

What we have here is a failure to communicate . . . properly.