Treasonous Lies of Bob Novak and Karl Rove

[Contrary1]

Old article from October of 2003, worth the read. Mentions a few
things I hadn't read anywhere else.

The Bush Old Guard Shows Its True Colors: The Treasonous Lies of Bob Novak and Karl Rove (er - the "Unnamed Official")
By Cheryl Seal

"...But the fact of the matter is, Novak and Rove -regardless of whether Rove was the direct leaker or merely the highest-level (short of Bush) “leak condoner”- are NOT good citizens nor are they patriotic Americans. Here are the crimes against Democracy, the American public, and private individuals they have committed:

1. Undermining of national security by exposing a CIA operative and by creating a rift of trust between the White House and CIA.

2. Attempted murder. That is what outing a CIA agent amounts to, purely and simply. In the 1990s, an agent named Welch was outed and, within a short time, found murdered outside his home. Some of the people in the chain of contacts of which Plame was a part may be murdered, even if she is not. Sadly, these retaliatory murders may never be revealed because of the secrecy of the chain.

3. Subversion of the American press. Novak allowed the American press to be used as a tool by the White House for revenge. This is not “free speech” or “journalistic prerogative.” This is premeditated abuse of the press, just as surely as the Mockingbird program, through which the CIA planted phony, damaging stories in the press to help gain White House and Pentagon objectives. Just as no one would call the Mockingbird program “the right of free speech,” no one would consider what Novack did his “right.” What possible public ”need to know” was there in revealing Valerie Plame as an agent?"

More...http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/lies.htm

[rateyes]

1. Treason is an ugly thing...Both need to be sent

to their jail cells to think about it for a long time.

[Coastie for Truth]

2. ROVE IS A FELON AND A TRAITOR

He compromised Valerie Flame

He compromised her contacts - both US and foreign.

He put their lives at risk.

He blew the cover - directly and indirectly - of American agents.

What he did was worse then anything that Jonathan Jay Pollard or Larry Franklin or Robert Philip Hanssen or Aldrich Ames ever did - and as an aggravating circumstance he did it from the White House - and as a further aggravating circumstance he did it under the cover of being an Assistant Presidential Chief of Staff, and as a still further aggravating circumstance - he did it for political revenge.

FROM A POSITION OF "SPECIAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE" HE BETRAYED THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

[rateyes]

3. I do hope you realize...

that I agree with you wholeheartedly!!! I wasn't being sarcastic in my post. They both need to go to jail for a long, long, long time.

[HardWorkingDem]

4. And Novak gets....

his own little show on CNN while The Capitol Gang and Crossfire are canceled.

Can this world of media lap dogs get any stranger?