Karl Rove, Traitor is Thy Name!

My Deep, Dark Fantasy- Karl in the Big House

The bullshit detector is overheating. The news media is missing the real story. They're falling into Rove's evil plan. It has been confirmed that Karl Rove, aka Bush's Brain, did speak with Matt Cooper of Time magazine about Valerie Plame. The White House is now refusing to discuss Rove and his involvement in the leak. Rove's attorney has acknowledged that Rove did discuss Plame with Mr. Cooper, but qualified that fact by stating that Rove never mentioned Valerie Plame by name. Oh, no? Rove just stated that she was the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and that she worked for the CIA. That's all! Revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent is a federal offense as it endangers the agent, their colleagues and contacts. Rove did this in retaliation against Plame's husband Joseph Wilson who was the former ambassador to Iraq under George H.W. Bush. Retired Ambassador Wilson was sent to Niger in 2002 by the CIA, to investigate Iraq's purchase of uranium from the Nigerian government. Wilson discovered that there was no evidence, and that the documents that the Bush administration was touting as proof were forgeries. What did the Bush administration do? They steamrolled ahead and included this fraudulent claim in Bush's 2003 state of the union address. Wilson who was appalled, decided to write an op-ed in the NY Times, entitled 'What I didn't Find in Africa.'


Joseph Wilson- pictured in the center

Rove has retaliated against who he felt was his enemy, many times in the past (as his former colleague will tell you). He may have gone too far this time, protecting his master's bogus evidence for the illegal invasion of Iraq. If he is fired by Bush, it won't be the first time he's been given the Kennebunkport boot. Rove was fired from Bush Sr's 1992 presidential campaign for "trashing Robert Mosbacher, Jr., who was the chief fundraiser for the campaign and a friend of Bush. In 1992 Rove accomplished this trashing of Mosbacher by planting a negative story with... Bob Novak.

Here is Rove's Evil Plan as I see it: #1 Rove shuts up Wilson, by putting his wife and her fellow covert CIA agents in danger. #2 Rove also knows that the journalists, who he loathes, will adhere to their code of ethics a la Bob Woodward. This would allow him to hide- what a brave soul, expose a covert CIA agent who specializes in WMD's, but hide your fat ass behind a code of ethics. How ironic. #3 the complete destruction, objective journalism. No one will approach a journalist on deep background or condition of anonymity if the journalist will wind up spilling the beans upon subpoena. Republican crimes and lies will go unreported and unexposed.

On a final important note: former President George Bush Sr, who used to head the CIA, was once quoted as saying "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." Former CIA analyst and former Plame colleague. Larry Johnson, stated on PBS' NewsHour that "the fact that she's been undercover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous because she was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she meets with overseas could be compromised. When you start tracing back who she met with, even people who innocently met with her, who are not involved in CIA operations, could be compromised."