Buzzflash: Author of Bush's Brain has no doubt Rove Involved

[RamboLiberal]

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Rove’s temper has always been his weak spot. He cannot seem to control his anger. When Ambassador Joseph Wilson wrote in the New York Times that there was no truth to the allegations that Iraq had tried to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger, Rove is said to have gone “ballistic.” No one who has known Rove for any period of time doubts that Rove was the one who orchestrated the leak, which “outed” Ambassador Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent. Rove has always made sure that his enemies knew he will strike back, and swing with deadly power.

Rove wasn’t just trying to intimidate Ambassador Wilson. If, as many believe, he is responsible for the leak, Rove wanted to send a message to everyone in the intelligence community that they all needed to keep their mouths shut. As the war was being sold, intelligence cooked, and the media spun, Rove and the White House had informed intelligence operatives and scientists that they were not to publicly repudiate the phony claims about aluminum tubes, which the White House falsely argued were part of an Iraqi gas centrifuge to make enriched uranium. One national reporter told me that calls to scientists and intelligence operatives to ask about the aluminum tubes, which turned out to be rocket bodies, yielded the confession the scientists and intelligence agents had been ordered to say nothing.

“We are not having this conversation,” the reporter was told.

But if he leaked Ambassador Wilson’s wife’s name, Rove was clearly trying to tell everyone in the intelligence community that they needed to toe the line, or they might also end up living at risk. This, of course, is a scurrilous, cowardly, and unpatriotic act. To believe that Karl Rove had no knowledge of this leak, or that he was not involved, it is necessary to ignore his absolute control of all things political in the White House, his Machiavellian nature, and attention to every sparrow flying under the Bush sun.

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Not surprisingly, “senior White House official” is Rove’s nickname among many reporters because Rove asks that the description be used virtually every time he talks to a reporter.

[Gman]

1. Bush is already gone

if Rove is in prison by this time next year.

[caledesi]

2. That was one juicy article. Thank you! Rove is slime.

[La_Serpiente]

3. Screw you Rove

I hope the phallushead gets locked up with Bubba in the federal penitentary.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. I am sure Rove was behind this

but I am also sure he was smart enough not to make the calls directly, but had someone else actually do the dirty work so that he would have deniability (is there such a thing as implausible deniability?) in case it backfired as it has. It will take some digging to find his fingerprints, but I agree with this article that considering his MO in the past, they have to be there.

[teryang]

5. I see a similar pattern in the anthrax attacks

...but it is unlikely that Rove directed those. My money is on Cheney, the guy who was always visiting the CIA and telling them what to say. Also, according to Wilsons story, Cheney was behind his mission to Niger.

[realFedUp]

6. A segment with author was on Democracy Now today (Wed, Oct. 1)

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/1435242

Wednesday, October 1st, 2003
Conflict of Interest? White House Rejects Call for Independent Counsel On CIA Leak Despite Longtime Rove-Ashcroft Ties

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President Bush’s closest aide Karl Rove was a consultant for John Ashcroft since 1985 in his gubernatorial and senatorial bids and pushed Bush to nominate Ashcroft as Attorney General. Rove has been accused of blowing the cover of a CIA operative to retaliate against her whistleblower husband. We speak to the author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush President.