As far as Rove is concerned, here is what seems to have happened: There were media reports that Dick Cheney had commissioned Joe Wilson's Niger trip, and that Cheney had disregarded Wilson's report because it undermined administration claims about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger. Cooper called Rove to ask about this, and Rove said it was false: Cheney had not authorized the trip - it was dreamed up by a CIA group who recruited Wilson at the suggestion of his wife, a CIA employee. Moreover, Cheney did not know Wilson, had never met him, and had never seen his report. Now, if you see criminal wrongdoing on the part of Rove in any of this, I'd like you to tell me what it was that he did wrong.
youre now asking me to take the side of attempting to explain what Rove did wrong?
i aint gonna do that.
i think all the fury is trying to get at the false claims to go to war. i think that the fury is about wanting to hold the President to statements he made about how anyone in his admin connected to this - leaked this, would be fired. i also think there is a fury to make this heated and of the essence.
at the root, there isnt much to stand on.