WP: Frog-Marching Time for Rove?

[UpInArms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/12/BL2005071200330_pf.html

The liberal blogosphere is aflame with animosity toward Karl Rove, now that he's been sucked deeper into the Plame probe.

Some folks out there think he should just be thrown in the jail cell next to Judy Miller's, no indictment or trial necessary.

To some on the left, Rove is the epitome of all they despise about the administration. He is Bush's brain, pulling the strings from behind the scenes, injecting politics into every conceivable decision. Rove further infuriated his critics a couple of weeks ago when he seemed to use the 9/11 tragedy to score political points, saying Republicans wanted to wage war and liberals wanted to offer the terrorists therapy.

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But politically, this is a bombshell. Rove, who has insisted he did not leak Plame's name, had something to do with this effort, even if he didn't "name" her. ( The defense: It all depends on the meaning of the word "leak?") He was attempting to undercut Wilson when he told Cooper that wifey had helped set up Wilson's fact-finding trip to Niger (where Wilson didn't find the facts the administration wanted on Saddam seeking uranium) and that the uranium business could still be true (it wasn't). And didn't the White House promise to fire anyone involved in the leak?

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(edited to change link to "printer friendly" as this is very long and detailed)

[Caoimhe]

1. I just brought up Google News and

THIS WAS THE TOP US STORY!!! WOOHOOO~!

[kansasblue]

2. What's a 'frog-march'?

What's a 'frog-march'?

[Patty Diana]

3. Here's Rove's Frog March

[wallwriter]

5. Casual Friday?

[Catfight]

4. chant it all day long: FIRE ROVE FIRE ROVE...TRAITOR to the US. nt

[bpilgrim]

6. protecting CRIMINALS (or WORSE traitors) in witnessing a (WMD)CRIME & NOT

coming forward is SICK and by NO means a 'ROUTINE" inquiry which REQUIRES openness to weTHEpeople since it is OUR lives that are ultimately in danger and allegedly the source of the power.

Michael Kinsley(in the LATimes, July 10, 2005): "If journalists routinely promise anonymity and routinely are forced to break those promises, this will indeed create a general "chilling effect" on leaks."

aka: popular rw straw-man - that he apparently and buy'n (phew)

but then he reminds us...

"The law against outing CIA agents is tricky, and the outing of Plame may not have broken it."

it's always 'trickery' or 'complicated' when it comes to our elite breaking the LAW :evilgrin:

and then he ends it with the frivolous "lawsuit" meme - aka RW TALKING POINT (shield).


"Even a skeptic about journalists' privilege like me recognizes the unreasonable burden on a free press if anyone who wishes to file a lawsuit, whatever its merits, can then subpoena a journalist and expose all of his or her notes, methods and sources. "

source...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kinsley10jul10,0,5939745.column?coll=la-util-op-ed

i'm sure it's all just in my head, though...

peace