July 10, 2005
It's Here! Newsweek Does Nail Rove
David Corn
"The Newsweek story I described below is out. Reporter Michael Isikoff has obtained a copy of an email that Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper sent his bureau chief, Michael Duffy, on July 11, 2003--three days before conservative columnist Bob Novak first published the leak that outed CIA officer Valerie Wilson/Plame. In that email, Cooper wrote that he had spoken to Rove on "double super secret background" and that Rove had told him that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's "wife...apparently works at the agency on wmd issues." "Agency" means CIA. Read the full Newsweek piece here, and read my item below on why it is so important. There now is clear-cut evidence that Rove was involved in--if not the chief architect of--the actions that led to the outing of Plame/Wilson. If he's not in severe legal trouble, he ought to be in political peril".
"Political peril", my ass! It's an act of treason to knowingly out a CIA operative anytime much less during time of war. Valerie Plame was a covert CIA operative who specialized in WMD's and this is not just another example, but the biggest example, of how far Bush and those around him went to deceive and lie to the public and punish anyone who disagreed with their exaggeration and manipulation of what the intelligence was telling them.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fritzgerald now needs to expand his investigation into what Bush knew and we need to begin an impeachment hearing after Rove's waterboarding reveals when Bush's involvement in this act of treason began.
After all, an act of treason is far more serious than an act of fellatio.
"I would love to see them frog-marched out of the White House," - Joseph Wilson
