The Rove Distraction.

[maddezmom]

CBS) In a Web-only update, CBS Chief News White House correspondent John Roberts weighs in on the CIA Leak trail leading to President Bush's key adviser Karl Rove.

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The White House took a baby step toward lifting the cone of silence that it has placed around the Karl Rove controversy on Tuesday, offering in response to a question that "yes", President Bush continues to have confidence in his deputy chief of staff and top political advisor.

And in answer to demands from Democrats that Rove's security clearance be revoked, the White House intoned that he has the "appropriate" security clearance.

Politically, though, the White House needs to have something else to say besides "we are not going to comment on an ongoing investigation."

They have commented on it extensively in the past.

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/13/politics/main708762.shtml

[wryter2000]

1. I heard that on the news last night

It was broadcast. The reference to Maxwell Smart (cone of silence) caught my attention.

[RobertSeattle]

2. "appropriate" security clearance?

I would assume just about anyone in the White House near the Oval Office must have a Top Secret clearance and if Rove has anything less he couldn't sit it on an TS briefings.

[Bassic]

3. Yeah he's probably high up there

Monkey Boy is just stalling until he daddy and his buddies tell him what to do.