bush's Brain is Leaking

[Nightjock]

*Sorry if dupe


Leaker! The man
they call Bush's Brain
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
and RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU


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WASHINGTON - White House political director Karl Rove was identified yesterday as the shadowy official who blew the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Rove, dubbed "Bush's Brain" for his political genius, was not indicted for his role in the leak and subsequent coverup.

Instead, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby on five counts of lying to federal officials and a grand jury.

The closest Fitzgerald came to identifying the leaker is a press release that says "senior White House official ('Official A')" gave Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, who promptly printed it.

At a news conference, Fitzgerald declined to name "Official A," but several sources close to the case told the Daily News it was Rove.

Both Rove and Libby had previously denied having any tie to the leak.

The 50-year-old Rove escaped charges for now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/360352p-307050c.html

[obxhead]

1. The 50-year-old Rove escaped charges for now.

We can only hope.

[OhioChick]

2. Hopefully,

there is more to come. BTW......A little shocked here. He's only 50? I thought he was much older.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Bush has got what appears to be a massive case of encephalitis...

so bad, it appears his head is going to explode. :hi:

[gizmo1979]

4. That would be a tiny

explosion.Not much power in that brain.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Not that much to explode, either.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. now that we've had an evening to consider, what will shrub do?

He is not inert, he likes to surprise people (pretending to show independence - heck, look at the miers nomination) and he probably chafed under the Cheney control, especially when everything the neocons promised turned out to be wrong.

So, Libby is thrown to the wolves, and Rove must seriously look in a mirror to check out those dark clouds still gathering over his horizon.

I suspect this weekend will result in a new concrete plan, one with surprising changes. There will be some retirements, resignations and a new slate of people coming in. Mehlman will probably be promoted to a starting role, lying officially on behalf of the president, instead of simply doing it on nightly cable for the RNC. Hughes will go back to Texas, given the total lack of success in her embarrassing friendship tours. It might even involve a change in the VP's office. As in retirement due to reasons of health. Card will retire. There will a surprise, perhaps several, in the choices of personnel.

Or, if he is as stubborn, arrogant and short-sighted as before, nothing will change. If so, he risks losing all hope of any chance of any doing anything productive.

Unfortunately, if he takes the latter step after hugging lumpie this weekend, the entire country can be at risk. I can only imagine how tough it was for Clinton to govern with so much crap going on, created by the GOP. Bush has no where the same talent or abilities, and is weighed down by serious personality disorders. If it continues on, he will be totally incapable of responding to outside problems. Katrina will look like a dream in comparison. And we cannot forget, we DO have enemies, many more now because of Neocon policies than before. But we risk ignoring them at our risk.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. What's important here is Rove IDed as THE LEAKER --

The leaker to Novak was the leaker who was of most interest, and we now know it was Karl.