Posted on 07/11/2005 9:23:14 PM PDT by Piranha
When allegations were made that someone in the White House had "leaked" the information that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent, President Bush agreed to launch an investigation into the alleged leak. He also made comments about what he would do with any leaker who was found.
On Fox News this evening, Brit Hume showed a clip in which President Bush vowed that if anyone in the White House had "broken the law", that person would be taken care of.
This is extremely significant, since it appears that Karl Rove may have shared with Time correspondent Matt Cooper the information that Plame worked for the CIA, but that he may have done so only in order to steer Cooper away from Joe Wilson's bogus and inflammatory allegations.
If President Bush said that he would fire anyone who was involved in the leak, then he may have to fire Karl Rove in order to keep his reputation as someone who says what he means and means what he says.
On the other hand, if the President's vow was only that he would fire the "leaker" if that person person broke the law, then it may be that President Bush would not have to fire Karl Rove under that standard, since it appears likely that Karl Rove's comments did not break any laws.
Does anyone have any links to President's comments at the time, regarding his vow as to how he would address the possibility that someone in his administration had leaked information about Valerie Plame?
I guess what also worries me is this prosecutor who seems pretty determined not to let this whole thing drop. Wasn't he chosen by John Ashcroft? Surely, they would have made sure the prosecutor wasn't some loose cannon that would turn on the Administration. Maybe as others have said, this is all just windowdressing to show that the investigation has been thorough and above board. So when it ends with no charges, the Libs won't be able to claim foul.
Theres a bigger story here than Rove for sure. This is all to petty as far as evidence goes for Rove to be the actual target in all this. He's done nothing wrong. Im sure when the smoke clears the liberals are going to cry foul once more, but thats only to hide their guilt.
I believe that he has...expanded the search, which is WHY Miller went to jail. IMO, Miller did NOT go to jail because of keeping mum about Rove.
Sooooooooooooo, since she was then, supposed a covert agent of the CIA, she outed herself to a civilian, who had NO need to know this.
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