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...story on Karl Rove's involvement in the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity provoked dismay at the lengths to which the White House will go to discredit critics. Others dismissed the affair as a partisan attack...
...story on Karl Rove's involvement in the storm over the disclosure of a cia officer's identity drew mail from readers who criticized White House tactics, while others saw a partisan attack Whether Karl Rove technically broke a law when he leaked the identity of cia operative Valerie Plame [wife of Administration critic Joseph Wilson] is beside the point [July 25]. Despite repeated denials by the White House, Rove talked about Plame to Time's Matthew Cooper as well as to Robert Novak, the reporter who blew her cover. So the President's deputy chief of staff was involved...
...Republicans are trying to use this as an example against Democrats, and I could see them, Karl Rove or their strategists in 2008, using this against the Democratic party,ā€¯ said Bernace, who has posted to his Web site e-mails he has received from outraged Americans across the country...
Lost in the cacophony of media attention surrounding Rove's possible misdeeds is one basic fact: in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this Administration misled the American people regarding Iraq's development of nuclear weapons. That important fact is now virtually forgotten. Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame. That was the Administration's first parry to deflect public attention. And with the continuing diversion of the American people's attention from the central issue of deception, the Administration is having things just the way it wants...
...absurd that New York Times reporter Judith Miller was put in jail for refusing to reveal her confidential sources and Rove remains in a job paid for by U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Bush to demonstrate true character and leadership and do as he promised, without parsing the relative legality of Rove's actions, which were at the very least arrogant and unethical. That sort of behavior should not be tolerated by either the President or the American people. We expect better from our public servants, elected or otherwise...