WA Post: "Didn't the W.H.promise to fire anyone involved in the leak?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/12/BL2005071200330.html

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.

Add the fact that this controversy is about the runup to the Iraq war and an apparent White House effort to discredit a prominent Bush critic, Joe Wilson, and you have an incendiary mixture. (It was Wilson, Valerie Plame's husband, who once declared that "fun to see Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.") And this dovetails nicely with the conviction that the press did a lousy job on WMD before the war and has been too soft on Karl & Co. ever since.

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?

- SNIP - On yesterday's press conference:

"The 32-minute pummeling was perhaps the worst McClellan received since he got the job two years ago. His eyes were red and tired. He wiggled his foot nervously behind the lectern and robotically refused to answer no fewer than 35 questions about Rove and the outing of the CIA's Valerie Plame. Twenty-two times McClellan repeated that an 'ongoing' investigation prevented him from explaining the gap between his past statements and the facts."

[Nite Owl]

1. Didn't * say that he

was assured that noone in the WH was involved? Is he lying or being lied to?

[Jacobin]

4. Scotty said it was 'ridiculous' to suggest Rove was involved

Those are his words back when it first surfaced.

"Ridiculous"......

Oh, and Scotty said Bush* "knew" that Rove had nothing to do with it but wouldn't say how he 'knew'.

[rkc3]

2. You could write a list as long as your left leg pertaining to the things

this administration has said they would do and haven't done yet.

We can start with finding OBL and build from there.

[kestrel91316]

3. Bush will NEVER fire Rove ..........

Bush will NEVER ask for Rove's resignation.
Rove will NEVER resign.
Bush will NEVER admit he has ever made a mistake or been wrong or done wrong.
Bush will NEVER resign.

The only way to get these demons out of the WH is to ARREST them and physically remove them.

[wake.up.america]

6. I agree. Anyone who has lived in a dictatorship (I have)...

knows Bush aint going to admit to nuthin' and his bozo brother is being primed to take over after a bogus election, that is if Georgie doesn't declare himself ruler for life.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. SOMEONE last night...I believe it was Michael Isikoff on Hardball...said..

"Bush NEEDS rove. He's too valuable to the administration."

So, one thing we know will happen: the media spotlight on this is driving down the shares of BushCo. That, in turn, is going to make it pretty damned difficult for him to move forward with his "agenda," and things like John Linder's National Sales Tax proposal.

If the public doesn't trust Bush, he can't "catapult the propaganda." And if he can't do that, he's just taking up space until 2008.

[Im with Rosey]

5. This is not going away

There seems to be a significant amount of coverage about this. My hope is that it will continue to be an issue that will be covered more thoroughly than the idiot piece on CNN/Jeannie Moos.

[MasonJar]

7. Bush knew because he was aware of the whole smear. I still

think her investigation into WMD illegal sales was getting too close to Cheney. He is such a crook. This was the old kill two birds with one stone answer to bothe their problems. I think that they all knew and probably planned it in their "executive privileged" meetings.

[Debi]

8. I thought the WH said the leaker would be 'dealt with'

Will Rove get a spanikn? :spank:

[Totally Committed]

10. I guess that means it depends on

what the meaning of "anyone" is... :sarcasm:

TC