Alert! Alert! Foils Down! Foils Down!

You might remember from last summer and the first big blow-up of the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove leak investigation, but Scott McClellan has a few people he calls on in the briefing room to help deflate any tough lines of questioning and to suck the energy out of the room. Numero uno? Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe, a.k.a. the Goyal Foil.

Goyal can be reliably counted upon to run to ask some complicated question about an obscure area of India-Pakistan relations, thereby distracting everyone in the room and causing the front row network reporters to instantly fall asleep.

Yesterday,

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