Rove's new spin - 'I'm an incompetent boob!'

[FormerRepublican]

I read this most recent spin from AP:

"WASHINGTON (AP) - After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview and said he tried to steer the journalist away from allegations the operative's husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.

The July 11, 2003, e-mail between Rove and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley is the first showing an intelligence official knew Rove had talked to Matthew Cooper just days before the Time magazine reporter divulged CIA officer Valerie Plame's secret identity.

``I didn't take the bait,'' Rove wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press, recounting how Cooper tried to question him about whether President Bush had been hurt by the new allegations.

The White House turned the e-mail over to prosecutors, and Rove testified to a grand jury about it last year."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5144579,00.html

I read this over and over trying to make sense of it. But my final assessment is this:

THE WHITE HOUSE IS TOO INCOMPETENT TO KEEP A CIA AGENT'S IDENTITY COVERT!!!

And we trust them with nukes?

Wow, I feel better. :sarcasm:

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Who trusts them with nukes?

??

[FormerRepublican]

6. Good point.

Let me rephrase.

And we're supposed to trust them with nukes?

[Vincardog]

2. Is this the same 'Genus' the RW has been praising?

[Luminous Animal]

3. It doesn't matter what Rove emailed to Hadley.

What matters is what he said to Cooper and what he said to Cooper was that Plame was CIA. He may not have been the original leaker but he was instrumental in blowing her cover.

[FormerRepublican]

4. Well...

...based on this latest evidence, I think we should push to have the security clearance removed from EVERYONE in the White House. Based on this clown show, the country would be far better off if these fools didn't have access to anything more classified than TV Guide.

The level of incompetence is astounding - and I didn't expect much in the first place!

And my life and those of my children rest in those incompetent hands. :scared:

Words fail me...

[Tesla]

5. I am still reading it over and over....