KARL ROVE: He has betrayed the nation

[Goldmund]

It's ironic that political genius Karl Rove - and perhaps others - could end up in prison for exposing the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Ironic, because their essential mistake in doing so was one of identity: their own.

They think they work for President George W. Bush. They don't. They work for America.

There's no reason to believe that Rove gave much thought at all to Valerie Plame Wilson, a 20-year CIA veteran working in the agency's counterproliferation division, when he mentioned her to at least two reporters in July 2003. The only reason she was in his sights was that she was married to Joseph Wilson IV. Wilson, a retired veteran U.S. diplomat, had gone public with disturbing information that the Bush administration might have twisted intelligence information to support its campaign for starting a war with Iraq.

In February 2002, the CIA sent Wilson to the African country of Niger to check out sketchy intelligence information suggesting that Iraq tried to buy Niger uranium for making nuclear weapons. Vice President Dick Cheney had been told about the report earlier and had asked for more information.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Thanks for posting this

[ironman202]

2. what's particularly galling about rove is

there was no point in saying plame was CIA. He could have said "Some faceless CIA bureaucrat sent him". He outed Plame (and, oh yeah, the billion dollar 20 year old CIA front company she worked for) in an attempt to deball Wilson. He was calling Wilson a girlyman.

[libertypirate]

5. I am sorry, Wilson/Plame is the minor issue

It's that front company and what they were doing to me that is the big issue.

Why would anyone in the White House cut their own legs off in the investigation of WMD, and financing of terrorism?

That is what this covert organization was doing, clandestine investigations into the bad guys. Why destroy this covert opperation?

[ironman202]

7. because they were never really interested in WMD.

[indepat]

3. One correction: they work for George W. Bush, not for America for their

loyalty is to W only IMHO, else this would not be an issue.

[brettdale]

4. kick

kick

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Even worse, Bush betrayed the nation

when he choose loyalty to a friend over loyalty to his country.