Christopher Hitchens seems to have had a busy day yesterday, just after Chalabi's talk at the AEI. Two links to two different people who claim he made a total fool of himself two different ways in the same ride in an elevator (both via tpmcafe)

David Corn claims.

As the elevator doors closed, I noticed in the lift my former colleague Christopher Hitchens, ... the Plame/CIA leak scandal. There was nothing wrong with the leak, he said. The public had the right to know that the CIA was out to sabotage the administration and undermine its case for war.

Kris Lofgren writes that after his debate with Corn Hitchens talked with him about Ohio and

Hitchens then turned the subject back to Chalabi, his good friend. I asked him if he thought Chalabi had been passing American intelligence to the Iranians. "No," he insisted. "It's possible that with his training, you know, at [The University of] Chicago that with his own ability he was able to crack the codes. He is a mathematical genius. His expertise is cryptology. It is possible that he broke the codes himself." (This is a paraphrase since I was walking down M Street and crossing Connecticut Avenue all while being amazed that I was having an actual conversation with Christopher Hitchens at the time). Now, I don't believe this for one second. Why would Chalabi be trying to break American codes in his spare time anyway? Who does that if they are friendly to us? Suspicious, I say.

TPD reader TT notes that this argument is considereably less plausible than the argument that it is OK to out CIA agents in a feeble attempt to score debating points.

Now my question is why are all ex lefties such total nutcase idiots ? It's not like lefties are all idiots so, until Hitchens Horowitz etc etc etc turn their coats no one notice is it ?