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| Will GOP Stand By Rove? |
| Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
As Democrats try to stage a political coup by railroading Karl Rove out of power, GOP leaders say that if Rove is indicted he should resign. The only flag they are rallying around is white.
Senator and presidential hopeful George Allen expressed that surrender sentiment recently, saying, "I do think that's appropriate," when asked if anyone indicted for allegedly leaking the name of a CIA operative should step down.
It is a view held by many in what some are now calling the Gutless Old Party.
This stands in stark contrast to the tenacious defense mounted by the Democrats in defense of the first elected president to be impeached, none of whom suggested the man who lied to the American people, lied under oath and otherwise obstructed justice should resign, even though his malfeasance in office was demonstrable and his breaking of laws he swore to uphold real.
But Karl Rove did not lie under oath. Karl Rove did not obstruct justice. Karl Rove is guilty of warning a Time magazine reporter that Joseph Wilson � a former Kerry adviser who wanted to keep his wife's job with the CIA so secret he attracted attention to himself by writing an op-ed for The New York Times saying his CIA-arranged trip proved President Bush a liar � was himself a liar.
The law Karl Rove is accused of violating was written to protect CIA station chiefs and their operatives abroad from leftist agitators like Philip Agee who intentionally revealed their names to foreign adversaries.
It was not meant to criminalize private conversations with reporters on "double supersecret background" in which the desk jockey wife of an op-ed writer for the Times was mentioned but not identified.
Joe Wilson blew Valerie Plame's cover. Anyone who wanted to know where she worked only had to follow her to her desk job in Langley, Va. |
posted by Jay Are @ 1:19:00 AM   |
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