Rove Rage

Slate ^ | 7/18/05 | Christopher Hitchens

[NathanBookman]

...and since the show trials managed to go on without producing either any evidence of any crime, or any evidence of any perpetrator, or any evidence of any victim.

It is the entire absence of the above three elements that makes the hunt for Karl Rove (who was once so confidently confused with I. Lewis Libby) so utterly Snark-like. (snip)

But the coverage of this non-storm in an un-teacup has gone far beyond the fantasy of a Rovean hidden hand. Supposedly responsible journalists are now writing as if there was never any problem with Saddam's attempt to acquire yellowcake (or his regime's now-proven concealment of a nuclear centrifuge, or his regime's now-proven attempt to buy long-range missiles off the shelf from North Korea as late as March 2003). (snip)

Now it, and its partisans and publicity-famished husband-and-wife teams, want to imprison or depose people who leak back at it. No, thanks. Many journalists are rightly appalled at Time magazine's collusion with a prosecutor who has proved no crime and identified no victim. Far worse is the willingness of the New York Times to accept the demented premise of a prosecutor who has put one of its own writers behind bars.

[NathanBookman]

Nadagate.

[NathanBookman]

The above is an excerpt. (forgot to click the box)

http://www.slate.com/id/2122963/

[petercooper]

[carumba]

nadagate - nada - swim - swim in water - watergate...the arc is complete.

[bmwcyle]

[NRA1995]

Rove, Rove, Rove your boat......

[HawaiianGecko]

 

 

	Leave it to Hitchens to maneuver through the hype and deliver an eloquent, short analysis.

 

[PilloryHillary]

[Republican Red]

Best analysis of this non scandal comes from writer John Tierney:

NY Times

For now, though, it looks as if this scandal is about a spy who was not endangered, a whistle-blower who did not blow the whistle and was not smeared, and a White House official who has not been fired for a felony that he did not commit. And so far the only victim is a reporter who did not write a story about it.

[dblshot]

I'm still waiting for someone to tell be what was V. Plames cover that was supposedly blown when she was "outed". As far as I know her only job was at the CIA WMD desk. If she was covert she had to have a better cover story than that. Even Maxwell Smart would have a better story that "I'm not a spy, I just work at the CIA." If her cover was as appears WMD desk analyst then Rove et al only confirmed her cover ,weak as it is. And if you did go under cover, covert wouldn't you change your name anyway? Publishing your picture in Vanity Faire would seem to be a much more serious problem for returning to covert work than having a name you can change in the press.

[Tom_Busch]

bump for later read.

[massgopguy]

Rove didn't confirm her cover. He just said that he had heard the same story about her working at the CIA. Maybe he read about it in the report from the Senate Intel Committee that was released with unanimous support by the committee which includes Sen. Schumer. Wait a second. Schumer said he never heard of Plame and Wilson till he read about them in the paper. That would be a lie now wouldn't it?

[popdonnelly]

If Valerie Plame was not a covert agent, and every known fact indicates that she wasn't, this entire investigation should be closed down now. I'm not interested in knowing who lied to the Grand Jury, even if it was Joe Wilson. I have no interest in people going to jail as a result of "Gotcha" games. If the identity of covert agents isn't at stake, then the entire investigation is a waste of time.

[TomB]

Great Picture.

Memo to the MSM: They aren't laughing with you,they're laughing at you.

[TChris]

Yes, the Legacy Media continue to slide further into the tar pits of 21st century irrelevance.

[syriacus]

Publishing your picture in Vanity Faire would seem to be a much more serious problem for returning to covert work than having a name you can change in the press.

Seems that way to me, too.

[hoyaloya]

What if the confidentiality of national intelligence assessments is at stake?

[marylandrepub1]

Conyers organizing online against Rove/Bush:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1446202/posts

[FReethesheeples]

Bravo for Christopher Hitchens!