eviscerate, v [trans]

Plamegate's ridiculous conclusion. By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine: "After you have noted that the Niger uranium connection was in fact based on intelligence that has turned out to be sound, you may also note that this heated moral tone ('thuggish,' 'gang') is now quite absent from the story. It turns out that the person who put Valerie Plame's identity into circulation was a staunch foe of regime change in Iraq. Oh, that's all right, then. But you have to laugh at the way Corn now so neutrally describes his own initial delusion as one that was 'seized on by administration critics.' "