Why Did Rove Take The Chance On Blowing Plames Cover?

[Quixote1818]

[Citizen Jane]

1. Combination

Part answer 3 (worry over Iraq buildup being exposed for a lie) and part Hubris!

[Moochy]

2. #3, and the OSP for the win Alex!

#3 Office of special plans

[TahitiNut]

3. I think Plame and her contacts already shined a llight on the WMD fraud ..

... and the WHIG saw her as a threat to expose their facade of lies. I'm betting she was a burr under their saddle -- identified as such when Cheney was making daily trips to Langley.

There's something kinda smelly about the easy inference that Joe Wilson was the sole target -- as a male -- and the "little woman" was only a way to get back at him. I think she was a target in her own right, as well. Her area of intelligence was WMD trafficking in North Africa and South Asia.

[dbonds]

5. Great point!

I don't suppose anyone knows what she knew or was working on at the time?

[Burried News]

6. I agree - Valerie and conscientious midlevel CIA personnel

were the targets of Cheney - Rove was the gunman, Joe Wilson was collateral damage.
Sexism is playing a role in our ability to observe impartially.

[donkeyotay]

8. This relates to another issue

which is that, since the administration was fixing the facts, they also knew it was unlikely they would find weapons in Iraq. But they needed them there, so it's possible they tried to put them there, and they might have crossed paths with Plame or others in doing so.

[TahitiNut]

9. Exactly. It's all about the WMD Fraud ... and how they were stymied.

This administration committed the largest war crime in this country's history and made us an outlaw nation. It all relates to that.

[jim3775]

4. This administration is like a mafia family

and nobody crosses the Don and gets away with it.

[leftofthedial]

7. a bit of all 3, plus

just plain arrogance of power.

[robertpaulsen]

10. Voted other - #3 is just the tip of the iceberg - read my signature.