Oh, nonsense.
We can't have our cake and eat it too.
Many here accused Kerry of treason - using a fairly wide description of that term.
Perhaps he was .. I dunno.
But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card.
What rank hypocrisy.
Sadim
Not very confidential if everyone knows it.
Youre a working journalist and you wrote #11?
The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.She would have had to have been covert in the last five years for Rove to have broken the law.Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.
The documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them, the officials said.
"But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card."
The flaw with your statement is that Rove didn't out her.
He did mention her name and that she worked for the CIA.
The vast majority of people who work for the CIA are not agents and definately not undercover agents.
It's also very questionable if she was really undercover as well.
The limited exerpt of the email doesn't seem to imply that Rove was aware that she was an agent, merely that she worked for the CIA, and that she had a hand in getting her hubby the job. A fact that her hubby publicly denied.
Wilson is the one that has been clearly caught lying in several cases. He lied about his findings. He made comments in the press that the documents were clearly forged when he never had access to the documents.
The facts do not support the accusation that Rove did something wrong.
That does leave us with the question of why the administration denied Rove had anything to do with this whole affair.
I guess we'll have to wait until the entire email is released, and we have enough information to develop a timeline of the events.
The press has a way of scewing what the administration says to suit their own ends. I'll wait until I see what was actually said and when it was said before I even start wondering if the administration screwed up with their statements.
"But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives..."
This email of Cooper's is not the end of the story ... the GJ investigation will continue.
Aussie journalists are evidently as subject to being misled by their personal biases as American journalists.
But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card
Were you aware that Valeri Plume had not been a covert agent in over NINE YEARS? Rush was reporting on that this morning.
But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card
Were you aware that Valeri Plume had not been a covert agent in over NINE YEARS? Rush was reporting on that this morning.
Sorry sport, no desert till you finish with your crow.....
"Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives"
Interesting that you have joined in with the slime-merchants without any knowledge or understanding of the case. There's no reason to believe Rove did anything unethical or illegal or (heaven forbid) 'treasonous' but there are plenty of good reasons to say that the imbecilic fraud artists who have been orchestrating and feeding these non-scandals, beginning with the dishonest and idiotic piece by Joe Wilson in the July 6, 2003 NY Times, are indeed guilty of various unethical, scurrilous activities.... and the people engaging in such activities against the government in TIME OF WAR certainly are guilty of seditious, perhaps treasonous, activities.........
What "secret operative" ? Plame was a low-level desk jockey.
Did you even READ the article? Are you retarded?
Your comments are puzzling. From what we know at this point, Rove broke no law regarding CIA agents. How can you "out" someone who's not an undercover agent in the first place? And how can you "out" someone who has already been outed, most notably by her own husband in his book? There was no secret about Plame's working for the CIA. As I understand it, the law referring to revealing CIA agents relates to undercover agents overseas, not people who work in the CIA building. So where's the crime?
Prove it.