Karl Rove, Our Favorite Punching Bag
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
This was posted yesterday but I didn't get a chance to post it here. I think its safe to say that Karl will not face jail time over this, probably get a slap on the wrist but its still fair to hold him to the fire over this. If we don't this just sets the presidence that its ok to leak and weasel your way out of it. There is a bunch of legal hairsplitting going on, the argument that Karl never said the name, just Joe Wilson's wife and he was trying to prevent false information being included in the Times article. Say I was a mob boss and ordered a hit on joe schmoe's wife, I didn't give her name but acknowledged that it was Joe's wife, the hitmen if they do not know already can go out to public records and look up the name and address. They carry out the hit, can I be held liable for ordering it? Why yes, I never said her name but I implied and gave enough info to trace it to the person, this is the same thing Karl did, he aluded to the person and the reporter connected the last part of the puzzle.
This is why the investigation needs to go on, if Karl didn't leak it, or if he did but got the info from someone else in the administration (i.e. Cheney) then this needs to be made public. The outing was a political payback, a smear campaign against Joe Wilson for coming public about the lie Bush was pushing between Saddam and Niger. The repubs have been spinning this so much, you would think Karl was the victim here, he was burned by the reporter and big bad Joe Wilson got away with slandering the prez. Its amazing how low the repubs will stoop to smear a whistleblower.
I find this interesting, I am upset none of the MSM have picked up on it, this info would paint a better picture of what kind of character Karl Rove really is.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/7/11/155029/380
Rove was caught for leaking to Novak in '92 and was fired by Bush Sr.
by janfrel From the diaries--Chris
I had forgotten about this:
Rove fired from Bush Sr's '92 campaign over leak to Novak. Karl Rove was fired from the 1992 re-election campaign of Bush Sr. for allegedly leaking a negative story about Bush loyalist/fundraiser Robert Mosbacher to Novak. Novak's piece described a meeting organized by then-Senator Phil Gramm at which Mosbacher was relieved of his duties as state campaign manager because "the president's re-election effort in Texas has been a bust." Rove was fired after Mosbacher fingered him as Novak's source.
Rove was the "only one with a motive to leak": Mosbacher says: "I said Rove is the only one with a motive to leak this. We let him go." The motive in question? Mosbacher had given Rove only a quarter of the $1 million spent on direct mail contracts for the 92 campaign; Rove, who in 1988 had the entire direct mail contract, therefore had an axe to grind with Mosbacher. Novak's column stated: "Also attending the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher."
Mosbacher still says Rove did it: Although Novak and Rove continue to deny Rove was the source of the leak, Mosbacher recently stated "I still believe he did it."
(Sources: "Karl and Bob: a leaky history," Houston Chronicle, Nov. 7, 2003, ; "Genius," Texas Monthly, March 2003, p. 82; "Why Are These Men Laughing," Esquire, January 2003)
Update (Chris): Rep. Slaughter points out that Bush promised to fire whoever was responsible for the leak:
During a White House Press Briefing on September 30, 2003 President Brush said the following in response to a question regarding the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity, "... if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of." When asked at a post G-8 Summit News Conference on June 10, 2004 if he stood by his statement that he would fire whoever was responsible for the leak, Bush said, "Yes. And that's up to the U.S. attorney to find the facts."
We know that Rove was responsible for the leak. Now, let's see Bush keep his word.
Posted by mardenhill 7/13/2005 09:06:00 AM
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