I don’t say that lightly. Glenn Greenwald is the acknowledged intellectual titan of the left wing blogosphere. He uses really long sentences and writes really long blog posts, so there’s no mistaking his mighty brain-power. But when Rahm Emmanuel appeared on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” during the height of Foley-mania, Greenwald missed the small fact that Rahm was lying through his teeth. I, on the other hand, caught it.

Just to revisit that sad point in history, a key part of the controversy was whether the Democratic Party had sat on the Foley instant messages (speaking figuratively of course), and waited to release them at a the most opportune political moment. If that was the case, it would have put the lie to the Democrats’ insufferably sanctimonious pleas that they were mortified by the damage done to “THE CHILDREN!” and horrified by the Republican leadership’s lack of concern for same.

When Rahm made his "This Week" appearance, I smelled a rat. I have two-pronged test that helps me determine when a former Clinton apparatchik is lying. First, I look to see if his or her lips are moving. If they are, then I know something might well be afoot. Then I listen to hear if they’re evading direct questions by answering unasked question as opposed to talking like normal people with nothing to hide. When the former is the case (as it usually is), you can be pretty sure they’re lying.

So here’s what I wrote on the very day of Rahm’s “This Week” appearance under the headline, “Leaving Foley, Parsing Rahm”:

(Republican Adam) Putnam asked Emmanuel, who happens to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whether he was aware of the nature of the Foley scandal before it broke wide open 12 days ago. Emmanuel responded, and I’m paraphrasing here because the transcript is not yet available, “I did not see the Instant Messages.”

To veteran Clinton-parsers, this choice of phrase registered as passing odd. That wasn’t either the “yes” or “no” that the question called for, even though a “no” would have driven forward Emmanuel’s narrative of Republicans’ exclusive hold on the affair’s culpability and neglect. In case you’re thinking that this might have been just an inadvertent and sloppy answer by Emmanuel, it’s worth noting that about 30 seconds later Putnam asked the exact same question and Emmanuel offered the exact same response - that he hadn’t seen the Instant Messages.

My work here is now done.

Having pored over the videotape, the results of the House investigation and an article about the segment, Greenwald has belatedly joined me in the conclusion that, much to his chagrin, Emmanuel lied. Glenn is shocked! Nonetheless, his fidelity to intellectual honesty on all matters big and small compels him to acknowledge Rahm’s mendacity.

Glenn’s not the only one shocked (!) here. I’m shocked (!) that Glenn has only had this epiphany 5 weeks after the election. I’m further shocked that it took his mighty intellect more than a month to put together this puzzle when I was able to do it in a single morning.

What I’m not shocked (!) about is that the left-wing blogosphere’s long knives have come out for Emmanuel, a long-time and outspoken critic of Howard Dean’s stewardship of the DNC. Let the internal bloodletting commence!

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