I think it’s too bad she lost her Obama-advising job over the Hillary “monster” comment. I wouldn’t have reported it if she had said it to me and immediately asked to take it off the record. But then I think people should be encouraged to talk to fair-minded reporters rather than be made to fear returning journalists’ phone calls.

Very odd dust-up, meanwhile, involving my friend Noah Pollak, who is, as far as I can tell, falsely accused of falsely calling Power an anti-Semite. I don’t see any evidence that Power is anti-Semitic or that Pollak has so described her. You often hear people say that false accusations of anti-Semitism are used to suppress foreign-policy debate. So, it seems, are false accusations of accusations of anti-Semitism.