Raw Story: Chorus for Rove's head grows louder ("deserves his pink slip")

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Chorus_for_Roves_head_grows__0711.html

Last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) was the only one calling for Karl Rove to explain or resign, and 16 other House members had joined him by the end of the week.

Today, after a flurry of press activity this weekend and in the White House briefing room, the Democrats' leader in the Senate added his voice, albeit slightly more tempered.

“I agree with the President when he said he expects the people who work for him to adhere to the highest standards of conduct," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said in a statement this afternoon. "The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration. I trust they will follow through on this pledge. If these allegations are true this rises above politics and is about our national security.”

And Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) also jumped in. "It is time for the President to keep his word. Karl Rove should be fired and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," Slaughter said. "There can be no gray area here, regardless of how he phrased it, regardless of how much detail he provided, he revealed the identity of an undercover CIA agent. What Mr. Rove did is reprehensible. Putting the life of an undercover CIA agent in jeopardy can not be tolerated. He clearly deserves his pink slip."

[RevCheesehead]

1. You can tell it's a story when CNN finally decides to cover it.

"I guess this just isn't going away...."
What about FAUX News? Have they said anything about it?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Fox:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162161,00.html

White House Mum on Rove Role in CIA Leak

WASHINGTON — The revelation that White House adviser Karl Rove (search) discussed a CIA employee with a member of the press has touched off a round of speculation, accusation and interrogation that has some reporters trying to lock down the Bush administration into taking action against Rove.

But the White House was not responding on Monday, with aides refusing to comment on any questions related to the special prosecutor's investigation into the alleged leak of the CIA operative's name and Rove's role.

"Those overseeing the investigation expressed a preference to us that we not get into commenting on the investigation while it's ongoing," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

Rove is on the hot seat after his lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed this weekend that in July 2003 Rove spoke to Time magazine's Matt Cooper (search) about former Ambassador Joe Wilson's (search) trip to Niger to investigate intelligence claims that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake uranium, used for making nuclear weapons, from that African nation. Wilson returned without such evidence, and subsequently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times criticizing the administration for manipulating intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. Yes, fired, but YES prosecuted

pink slip - ha. It sounds so...mild. He needs to go behind bars for a very long time.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/665903