Dawn Turner Trice: Rove's role, fate in CIA scandal just a sideshow

[steve2470]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0507180155jul18,1,6875475.column?coll=chi-news-hed

Published July 18, 2005


I'm considering printing up T-shirts that say: It's the war, stupid!

If we look at the story about Karl Rove and the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame in the narrow scope of whether special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will be able to indict Rove, we miss a bigger story.

That's the one about how the Bush administration consistently has used questionable tactics (paying "journalists," prepackaging news stories, disparaging adversaries) to promote its policies, seemingly at any cost.

If administration officials merely were peddling "No Child Left Behind" or the privatization of Social Security to the party faithful, we probably would tune it out as we would an infomercial.

But this is war, and the truth about our involvement in it has to trump toeing the policy line. Soldiers, civilians and their families are paying the ultimate price daily. The war continues to raise the question of whether, as the Downing Street Memo says, "intelligence and facts were fixed around the policy."

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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. KICK KICK KICK n/t

[mike_c]

2. kick and a nomination....

Do you hear anything dripping...?

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Frankly... Rove will walk

Why.
1) Don't think he has clearence for classified documents, hence he cant be the leaker.
2) Already say he knows it from a) media sources (Miller?) or a senior administration official ( anybody guess ... but he cant remember)
3) Defence is documents already leak by someone and was just warning that it is dangerous to talk about it.... ( Already talk too much)
4) Bush say will only fired if crime is committed.

From a legal stand point he get off from being a leaker.
On a moral and ethic basis, disgusting.

Rove just the bone thrown for all to chew at no meat at all.

Who is the leaker? Still unanswered. ( Miller wont talk)
So where this case going
1) Leaker unknown YET....
2) Forgery of classified documents .... still unknown
3) Who misled the Whitehouse on war on Iraq .... still unknown
4) Was the Whitehouse mislead or party to the deception still unknown

But it is clear, the Iraq war was based on lies, The President has failed the country. Period. It is his watch he has to be responsible.
TALKING POINT RIGHT THERE.

[bonito]

4. And the truth will set us free. n/t

[tk2kewl]

5. I kew this would have to start to come full circle eventually.

I just didn't expect the news media to connect Plame-Wilson-Niger-DSM this soon

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Kkkarl is the hypocrisy that slid Shrub in the back door,Legacy=punishment

How many of the ? % that really voted for Shrub, got their gut feeling from Kkkarl.

[tk2kewl]

7. Wow! He didn't even get the auotmatic 30% KKK vote.

:wow:

[Oversea Visitor]

8. BUSH has fail the nation as a President

Call for his resignation. Should start writting to press on this hey

[Supersedeas]

9. merely peddling a war with political dirty tricks - nominated

[steve2470]

10. kick nt