| | apparently feeling frisky after cutting a deal with Fitzgerald
getting out of legal trouble on the Plame Affair. is back to his old
habits.
like so many Republican leaders. also a chickenhawk and a
closet-case; it's like its a job requirement:
Bush is taking the bullets. Rove is fighting the war on terror. all good Republicans are in the trenches. sacrificing for the
nation. willing to do anything it takes.
but that's just bullshit metaphor. In fact. Bush didn't intend to
risk anything. Rove is fighting Democrats and Americans. most good
Republcians aren't sacrificing a thing. and in fact all they are
willing to do is send someone else to fight and send the bills to
someone else to pay.
The people who are able to talk about fighting without metaphor want
the non-metaphorical war to end and before more troops become dead in a
manner that isn't merely an expresssion.
WASHINGTON - The decision not to charge Karl Rove shows there often are
no consequences for misleading the public.
while Rove allowed the White House to tell the news media that
he had no role in leaking Valerie Plame's CIA identity. the
presidential aide was secretly telling the FBI the truth.
It's now known that Rove had discussed Plame's CIA employment with
conservative columnist Robert Novak. who exposed her identity less than
a week later. citing two unidentified senior administration officials.
And by misleading reporters. the White House saved itself from a
political liability during the 2004 presidential campaign.
While the president and the vice president underwent questioning by
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in 2004. Rove's role never
surfaced. The lone blip on the radar screen was a one-day flurry of
news stories the month before Election Day when Rove was brought before
a federal grand jury - one of his five grand jury appearances in the
probe.
The extent of Rove's involvement didn't become official until Oct.
28 of last year. when Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. was indicted on charges of perjury. obstruction and lying
to the FBI about how he learned of Plame's CIA identity and what he
told reporters about it.
The indictment recounted Rove's conversation with Novak about the CIA
officer. as Rove later related it to Libby.
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