Posted on 07/12/2005 3:31:58 PM PDT by Crackingham
That clearly was the intent of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in leaking to a reporter that former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent. To try to conceal the fact that the president had lied to the American public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, Rove attempted to destroy the credibility of two national security veterans and send an intimidating message to any other government officials preparing to publicly tell the truth.
Rove's lawyer now says that Rove didn't break the law against naming covert agents because he didn't know Plame's name and therefore couldn't have revealed it. Perhaps he can use such a technicality in court, but in the meantime he should resign immediately or be fired by the president for leaking classified information, trying to smear Wilson and possibly endangering Plame's life.
"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "I trust they will follow through on this pledge."
The background on this story is crucial. Ambassador Wilson had been honored as a patriot by President George H.W. Bush for standing up to Saddam Hussein in a face-to-face confrontation in Baghdad on the eve of the Persian Gulf War. But in 2003, Wilson committed an unpardonable crime in the eyes of the second Bush White House. He exposed its lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Aha! Trust the LATime to cut right to the heart of the matter.
There are so many errors of fact in this piece one simply doesn't know where to begin.
OKay, you know what Robert Sheer is, don't ya?
BAAAAAARF!!!
These people (liberals) are more phuqed up than a soup sandwich. Unreal. It does'nt take much to send them off after the geese, huh?
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Did Michael Moore write this?
A guy that once wrote an entire book extolling the virtues of North Korea's government.
He is a supporter of the head moonbat....:-)
The original Malibu Marxist adds his quota of smog.
So many lies, so little time. Isn't that always the case when dealing with these people?
Brit Hume just said Plame was the one who notified Joe Wilson that he was assigned the trip to Niger. She started with "There's this crazy report (about Saddam wanting to buy uranium from Niger)." Wilson's attorney also denied that Wilson's wife involved in the sending of Joe to Niger...even though a CIA agent testified to that and there is a email from Plame recommending that her husband should be assigned to go.
Also on Fox tonight, John Gibson recommended that Rove be given a medal for exposing a CIA agent (Plame) who knows her husbands thoughts on the war has the CIA send her husband on such a critical mission. Who was trying to harm national security???? "There's this crazy report...", nope, no bias there.
The media is spinning this real hard. And I believe they are going to get burned....big time!
The rats are about to look very silly, consider the following:
IT WAS JUST REPORTED ON FOX CABLE NEWS THAT HER NAME WAS ON HER HUSBAND'S WEBSITE AND HE ID'ED HER THERE AS WORKING FOR THE CIA, THIS BEFORE ROVE SPOKE WITH THE REPORTER(S).
AND IF ROVE DIDN"T GET THE INFO FROM A CLASSIFIED SOURCE BUT FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE (HER HUSBANDS WEBSITE)THERE IS NO VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
sorry for the caps but I feel like yelling this...lol
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