Will indictment shatter GOP security image? (Like Alger Hiss Case?)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9854700/

For the moment, the big prize — President Bush’s strategist Karl Rove — has gone un-indicted and Democrats’ hopes for his political demise must await fulfillment.

But some Democrats believe the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. on Friday gives them a cudgel to beat the Republicans with: the notion that when it comes to national security the party of President Bush and Vice President Cheney is not to be trusted.

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But now the Democrats, brandishing the indictment of Libby, argue that Bush and the Republicans endanger national security.

Some rank-and-file Democrats call the leak of Valerie Wilson's CIA employment "treason." If so, the case would be far more grave than the Watergate scandal of the Nixon era, the 1987 Iran-contra affair involving giving U.S. weapons to Iran to help in its war against Iraq, or the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton liaison.

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If Democrats are correct that the Libby indictment implicates Cheney’s aide in treason or in deliberately endangering U.S. national security, perhaps the closest analogy of this scandal to an earlier one is to the Alger Hiss scandal.

[serryjw]

1. Absoluely...What the 'plumbers' did was a joke

they broke into the democratic HQ! They is OUTING a CIA operative,working on WMD,AT WAR TIME (as Chimp loves to remind us!), for political gain. Her career is over, her family may very well be in danger forever, how many people around the world did this hurt? ...not to mention 20 years of a 'companies' deep cover, destroyed.