Posted on 07/11/2005 7:57:59 PM PDT by RWR8189
WASHINGTON, July 11 - Nearly two years after stating that any administration official found to have been involved in leaking the name of an undercover C.I.A. officer would be fired, and assuring that Karl Rove and other senior aides to President Bush had nothing to do with the disclosure, the White House on Monday refused to answer any questions about new evidence of Mr. Rove's role in the matter.
With the White House silent, Democrats rushed in, demanding that the administration provide a full account of any involvement by Mr. Rove, one of the president's closest advisers, turning up the political heat in the case and leaving some Republicans worried about the possible effects on Mr. Bush's second-term agenda.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, cited Mr. Bush's statements about firing anyone involved in the leak and said, "I trust they will follow through on this pledge."
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said Mr. Rove, given his stature and the principles involved in the case, could not hide behind legal advice not to comment.
"The lesson of history for George Bush and Karl Rove is that the best way to help themselves is to bring out all the facts, on their own, quickly," Mr. Schumer said, citing the second-term scandals that have beset previous administrations.
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And the MSM run to the most partisan hacks they could find, and help them slip the noose around their own necks, and tighten, ever so slowly.....
"With the White House silent, Democrats rushed in, demanding that the administration provide a full account of any involvement by Mr. Rove,"
Isn't that what the taxpayers are paying this investigation for?
BTW, why not demand Newsweek release the complete Cooper e-mail?
"A covert agent is defined as someone whose identity is classified information and who has served outside the United States within the last five years."
Anyone know if that applies?
If he is a republican and Bush aide, convict then try. If he is a terrorist, try before convicting.
And these sicko liberals want to be taken seriously?
"A covert agent is defined as someone whose identity is classified information and who has served outside the United States within the last five years."
It does not. I believe it was her husband who leaked or maybe Harry Reid or Leaky Leahy.
/Deep-Computer-Gate?
There has been some dispute, moreover, about just how secret a secret agent Ms. Wilson was.
"She had a desk job in Langley," said Ms. Toensing, who also signed the supporting brief in the appeals court, referring to the C.I.A.'s headquarters. "When you want someone in deep cover, they don't go back and forth to Langley."
As a Doctor I prescribe "Journalistic Viagra" for the limp ones known as reporters at the New York Times.
and before that.
"Based on the e-mail message, Mr. Rove's disclosures are not criminal, said Bruce S. Sanford, a Washington lawyer who helped write the law and submitted a brief on behalf of several news organizations concerning it to the appeals court hearing the case of Mr. Cooper and Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times. Ms. Miller has gone to jail rather than disclose her source.
"It is clear that Karl Rove's conversation with Matt Cooper does not fall into that category" of criminal conduct, Mr. Sanford said. "That's not 'knowing.' It doesn't even come close."
all this is a feeding frenzy.
But I have to say that McClellan was ridiculously pathetic and should have shot back at the press corps.
I mean, what are the chances of a valley girl doing epionage in Tehran or Pyongyang, eh? Zero. The entire "covert agent" meme the liberal press keeps spewing is patently idiotic.
Why worry? Words get repeated to create an impression, you see. Whether or not they accord with reality is a matter of indifference.
The White House is playing 'rope-a-dope' with the entire MSM White House press corps. They are all rats running after the same piece of cheese and they are all going to be shown up as a chumps when it is shown that Rove is innocent
So, are we to assume that the wheels fell off of the Great Tom DeLay Smear Campaign of '05, or do the dems just suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder?
If she is a top notch extra special secret agent, can't she just wear a disguise and start over? Of course she would have to drop Joe, but that will just be a bonus for her.
Great point.
There was something else recently too, but I don't recall.
If you watch this White House closely, when they are wrong, they flat out say so in one of these press briefings. I have heard them say "Well, we thought it was this, but after further review we've decided it was more like this" kind of statements.
When they are right, they say "We covered that yesterday and we stand by what we said."
But when they don't say anything...when they let something just hang there, taunting you, begging you to reach out and grab it with both hands...YOU are in DEEP and everlasting doo-doo.
And the press STILL hasn't learned.
I haven't followed the story very closely, but i get this feeling that the White House is acting like B'rer Rabbit in this case and telling B'rer Fox (the Dems and MSM) not to throw them in the briar patch. This Rove flap will turn out to be nothing, and the usual screaming, nitwit subjects will have egg on their faces.
The Rats remind me of little kids you see in the park, chasing after birds and squirrels. They keep thinking they are going to get one, and they run in all different directions, and they never get discouraged. But they never get anything. Little kids eventually grow out of it, but the Rats under Bush keep right on chasing.
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