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Home Front: Politix
Democrat Party Keeping Its Focus on Karl Rove
2005-09-14
(CNSNews.com) - John Roberts' confirmation hearings and hurricane relief efforts may be dominating the headlines, but the Democratic National Committee is not deterred: It continues to issue daily reminders about the Karl Rove controversy in an effort to keep the issue alive. Each day, the DNC is highlighting a "specific fact" that "Americans deserve to know about the White House's involvement in the improper and possibly illegal disclosure of an undercover CIA agent's identity for political gain."
Memo to DNC: She wasn't undercover, hadn't been for years
Dems are going to be mighty unhappy when the only person indicted in the PlameNameBlameGame is Judith Miller.
The DNC headlines its daily "reminder" with the phrase, "Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Stone Wall!"
Memo to DNC: I'd be careful about mentioning "Walls" if I were you.
The DNC cites news reports saying that the 20-month-long federal grand jury probe into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity could wrap up within weeks. And if that probe implicates Rove, as the DNC assumes it will, "will Bush keep either of his promises" to fire the person responsible? the DNC is asking.
You assume too much, I think
"Why didn't Bush at least revoke Rove's security clearance when it became clear Rove had improperly used his access to national security secrets to achieve a partisan, political objective?" the DNC asked in Tuesday's daily reminder.
You mean like when Sandy Berger shoved classified documents into his pants?
The Rove controversy made headlines for a few weeks in July, but as "scandals" go, it has failed to produce much grassroots interest or outrage. In a statement released on July 19, the Democratic National Committee suggested that President Bush had nominated Judge John Roberts to torpedo the Rove story. "Faced with a growing scandal surrounding the involvement of Deputy White House chief of Staff Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby in the leaking the identity of a covert CIA operative, President Bush announced his nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court late this evening," the DNC said on July 19.
And now he killed 10 thousand people to cover......oh, wait
Posted by:Steve

#7  Lemurs, or lemmings?
Posted by: Mike   2005-09-14 17:05  

#6  " In a statement released on July 19, the Democratic National Committee suggested that President Bush had nominated Judge John Roberts to torpedo the Rove story."

Close circut to Howard Dean: Those stunts only work on the lemurs in the Democratic Party.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2005-09-14 15:27  

#5  Do they realize that Rove is neither elected, nor running for any office?

Or that they're facing having one of their governors being responsible for the deaths of hundreds and endangering thousands?

Or that, well, they're a party of traitors, moonbats, and clowns?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-14 13:04  

#4  LinkTV considers Rove right up there with Hitler and is releasing a show called "Bush's Brain" in which they claim that Rove is the evil brain of Bush.

This was followed by "Harry Bellefonte" pleading for more money for LinkTV to persue their great informative projects like "Bush's Brain". "They are making us aware of the major dangers of our times."

Next up was "How the Patroit Act Ruined My Life."
This evil Rovian Act.

Posted by: 3dc   2005-09-14 13:01  

#3  Andrew C. McCarthy writing for NRO. Hat tip to Michelle Malkin. EFL:
Just four months ago, 36 news organizations confederated to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. At the time, Bush-bashing was (no doubt reluctantly) confined to an unusual backseat. The press had no choice - it was time to close ranks around two of its own, namely, the Times's Judith Miller and Time's Matthew Cooper, who were threatened with jail for defying grand jury subpoenas from the special prosecutor.
The media's brief, is fairly short and extremely illuminating. The Times, which is currently spearheading the campaign against Rove and the Bush administration, encouraged its submission. It was joined by a "who's who" of the current Plame stokers, including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, AP, Newsweek, Reuters America, the Washington Post, the Tribune Company (which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun, among other papers), and the White House Correspondents (the organization which represents the White House press corps in its dealings with the executive branch).
The thrust of the brief was that reporters should not be held in contempt or forced to reveal their sources in the Plame investigation. Why? Because, the media organizations confidently asserted, no crime had been committed. Now, that is stunning enough given the baleful shroud the press has consciously cast over this story. Even more remarkable, though, were the key details these self-styled guardians of the public's right to know stressed as being of the utmost importance for the court to grasp - details those same guardians have assiduously suppressed from the coverage actually presented to the public.
Though you would not know it from watching the news, you learn from reading the news agencies' brief that the 1982 law prohibiting disclosure of undercover agents' identities explicitly sets forth a complete defense to this crime. It is contained in Section 422 (of Title 50, U.S. Code), and it provides that an accused leaker is in the clear if, sometime before the leak, "the United States ha[s] publicly acknowledged or revealed" the covert agent's "intelligence relationship to the United States[.]"
As it happens, the media organizations informed the court that long before the Novak revelation (which, as noted above, did not disclose Plame's classified relationship with the CIA), Plame's cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz - an old-school, "let's find out what really happened" kind of journalist. Gertz's relevant article was published a year ago in the Washington Times.
THE MEDIA TELLS THE COURT: PLAME'S COVER WAS BLOWN IN THE MID-1990s
As the media alleged to the judges (in Footnote 7, page 8, of their brief), Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-09-14 10:58  

#2  Can they call me The Evil Karl Rove? My wife says that makes her hot. Thanks a lot...
Posted by: Karl Rove   2005-09-14 10:03  

#1  One of Rove's secret fax-memos, the instruments of his control over the entire universe, can be seen here.

Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone.
Posted by: Mike   2005-09-14 10:00  

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