In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bye Bye Rove?
Okay, we were out yesterday and this weekend when a story that could finally bring down Rove broke:
CIA seeks probe of White House
The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa, NBC News has learned.
The CIA has been taking the fall for Bush’s 9/11 and Iraqi failures. It’s interesting that they finally decided to fight back. Sorry George, this isn’t your daddy’s CIA.
The American news media, being such hard hitting investigative journalists are now taking this opportunity to write about an outrage they we here at TCS first mentioned in July.
So the White House is pissed that Wilson (who also worked for Reagan and Bush the elder so perhaps the conservative media can drop this “Clinton appointee” red herring already) has revealed that they lied about Iraq’s WMD’s in the State of the Union, so they tell the world his wife is CIA. Basically some "senior White House officials" just struck a blow against our war against terrorism, just to say, “well I can hurt you too,” like the schoolyard bullies they are. Remember the “adults” are in charge. They just happened to be emotionally and morally stunted adults.
Top White House officials don’t give a damn about outing our spies, which according to Bush the elder means they are traitors. “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.” - George H.W. Bush, at the dedication of the George Bush Center for Intelligence. (thanks Eschaton)
So how does Bush respond to realizing that there are traitors working directly under him that puts our nations security at risk?
White House spokesman Scott McClellan, during a lively news briefing, said no internal investigation was planned.
"At this point, I think the Department of Justice would be the appropriate one to look into a matter like this ... There are a lot of career professionals at the Department of Justice that address matters like this." (from: White House Rejects Independent Counsel for Leak)
Basically it’s not a big deal to them. Why? Because they know the leak was an act of revenge and not of a nefarious spy, which is cool with them I guess. Of course, we’re still left with many spies with blown covers.
The Washington Post has some good details: Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
For more details, and up-to-date information on this, I’d recommend: Talking Points Memo, they’ve been pushing this story all along, and are acting as a great clearing house on this long brewing scandal.
Buzzflash is a great source as well, and has a great little bit Rove's history in this area of leaking items to Novak:
"Sources close to the former president (Bush) say Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr. It was smoked out, and he was summarily ousted."
And Buzzflash also has a lot more detail about Rove's bag of dirty tricks: Karl Rove, As They Say, Has a History
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