Why didn't Rove admit this months ago and avoid all this crap?
He said it was the guy's wife. Even though he didn't mention her name he revealed her job.
If a dem did this, we'd be screaming and yelling.
Rove should resign.
PS: the reporter has more honor than Rove.
If Rove didn't mention the name then there's nothing for him to worry about, and you shouldn't waste your time on this either.
I am guessing Rove didn't admit to something he didn't do because he didn't do anything. Refer to the actual TIME story, not the Newsweek spin on it, and you'll find that Rove didn't reveal Plame's status. So what exactly is he supposed to resign for?
Mr. Rove said he didn't know her name nor that she was an undercover agent. Apparently it wasn't a secret to a number of the Washington set that she had been undercover at some point, so it's just a waste of time and money about nothing. What did he have to gain by deliberately giving away her agent status if he had known it?
The important point was that she, a Bush-hater, got her Bush-hating husband a job that was used to call the Commander-in-Chief a liar during a time of war, when Saddam's search for yellow cake was verified by others. Or have we all forgotten the real issue because of this obvious red herring?
"Rove should resign."
I agree.
I always thought it was him the source.
Whether he resigns or not he's in deep trouble. I hope the President has his name in the immunity list because he's gonna be spending many years in prison.
Bullpucky!
Valarie Plame should resign for sending her husband to Niger to cook intelligence. She and he are a disgrace.
A pair of glory hounds putting their own stardom ahead of the country.
They belong in the Rosenberg wing of the Traitor's Hall of Fame.
Yeah, Michael Issakof is all breathless over this email. Apparently it proves that Karl Rove flushed a Koran down a toilet.
I can see why you've been banned 6 times.
Time and Newsweak were reporting (in July, 2003) that CIA Director George Tenent had authorized and sent Joe Wilson to Africa to "investigate" whether or not Iraq tried to buy uranium yellow cake.
However, it turns out that Valerie Plame (Wilson's wife) was the person who authorized the "investigation."
Considering the fact that the US Senate has since issued a report categorically stating that Wilson's subsequent report was wrong, and considering the fact that Wilson and his wife have since been shown to be anti-Bush anti-Republican anti-Iraq war protestors, it is extremely possible that both Wilson and his wife will be brought up on disiplinary charges.
At the very least, they played personal gotcha and political gotcha against President Bush, and it is also unethical and possibly illegal to send one's own wife or husband or relative to do such a high priority job such as investigate yellow cake.
Besides, it has not been shown that Rove "outed" the wife as a CIA "agent", and it is far from clear on what her job is anyway.
Rove, by my take, simply said it was Wilson's CIA-employed wife who sent her husband, and the reporters subsequently dug up information claiming she was an "agent" or an "operative."
I am not sure it is illegal for Rove to have said that Plame worked as an administrator in the CIA.
To out an agent, yes that is supposedly illegal. But if it was illegal to say someone works in the CIA as an analyst or a bookkeeper, then thousands of reporters have already broken the law, by my estimation.