Karl Rove is in deep sh*t now!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050702-21510600-bc-us-leak-1stld.xml
Why would something called “Science Daily” cover politics?
I’m not saying the story is or isn’t true (I obviously don’t know), it just seems weird to me.
From the article…
- “The panel is investigating the leak of Plame’s name to various news outlets in 2003. It is a federal crime for a government employee to reveal the name of an undercover operative.”
I wonder if the Bush White House will conduct business from prison the way the Mafia does.
Will Newsweek do?
Hehehe…thanks. 
The current leaks appear to be coming from Rove’s own lawyers.
Which leads me to suppose that what we’re seeing is the frequent Rove strategy, when facing false news, of planting an exaggerated version of it in the media, which draws all the headlines, only to later be found to be inaccurate.
“Oh!” middle america thinks. “It was all a lie!”
We saw this most recently with the “flushing korans” story: as it turned out, the real report, when released, did contain confirmation that at least one soldier, who’d been deliberately pissing* on one detainee also managed to piss on a koran in doing so
In the resulting media storm, the entire focus shifted from the real story to chasing evidence for the planted red herring.
This current leak strikes me as entirely too similar. I suspect that when the final report is released, the evidence will show Rove with only half his hand in the till. He’ll declare himself vindicated and public attention will move on.
*To be fair, the actual report had an elaborate (and unconvincing) explanation of how the whole pissing on detainees-thing was an accident, but that part didn’t ring true.
A very comprehensive summary, with a video of the revalation on the McLaughlin group:
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/7/2/112718/8562
Don’t hold your breath. I’ll bet cash money Rove will never see a day in prison over this deal. He certainly should, but he won’t.
Dale
I think you are right. With the radical right in charge of the government, we are not likely to see justice. 
I think you are right. With the radical right in charge of the government, we are not likely to see justice. >
I’m not too worried, Dale’s avatar puts me at ease. Tom will make everything right.
Why would a source WANT to protect this SOB?
(I guess I know the answer, this was more of a frustrated rhetorical question)
I expect you’re right. I’m much more interested in seeing Rove totally discredited as an unpatriotic, anti-American fraud who will sell out America’s agents, people and interests whenever it meets his self-serving political interests. He’s been all over the country the last few months gathering money and promoting like-minded far right candidates for 2006 and beyond. I don’t know whether it will make much difference in the long run, but I’d like the right to realize they’re being led by someone who does not really share their values.
Is there a good reason this isn’t in the political thread?
There probably is but the evil Bush administration/those bleeding heart liberals* won’t come clean about what it is.
*Delete as applicable.
I think it’s obvious by now that limiting a topic to one thread is counter-productive. Could you imagine if all flute topics were limited to one thread? There are too many sub-topics with politics, probably even more than flute topics, but to limit them all to one thread would make any continuity impossible.
If a forum about “anything” is going to include politics, then the topic deserves equal status. If that can’t be provided, then perhaps it should be excluded. But to exclude it all together would indicate that the members of the forum couldn’t handle it. Any decision to ban political topics should be preceded by some serious soul searching. There’s no reason that an important topic that affects us all so much should be excluded, or banished to an awkward one-topic sticky thread.