Probe Poses Issue of What Rove Told Bush

[deminks]

Among the many questions surrounding the investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer is whether President Bush's top political adviser told his boss the truth about his connection to the case.

Two years ago, the White House denied that Karl Rove played any role, but revelations in the past month have shown that Rove spoke with two journalists about the operative, Valerie Plame. Whether Bush knew the truth while the White House was issuing its denials is not publicly known.

Presidential scholars say a White House's refusal to comment can suggest an administration in political trouble.

"When under fire they suddenly hide behind the shield of secrecy as though they have no control over the matter," said Mark J. Rozell, a public policy professor at George Mason University who has written five books on the presidency.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/11/national/w150212D11.DTL

[rodeodance]

1. "hide behind the shield of secrecy "---yup--that is what the WH does!!

[grytpype]

2. I think Bush was in on this from the beginning.

He was on the AF1 flight to Africa where the State INR memo was being passed around. I don't believe that they would have discussed Wilson and Plame on that flight without Bush being involved. Maybe it was his idea in the first place to use Plame to discredit Wilson... we don't know who originated the idea but it could very well have been him.

[rodeodance]

5. maybe they did leave bush out of the loop?? I really do not know.

[MADem]

22. If they lied to him, it is a crime

Either he knew (and I think he did) or he is gonna have to do without all of his trusted advisors, as they will be frogmarched!

I always thought one of Miller's sources was Bush. Sure, she may have met with Scooter, he of the nonspecific waiver/no personal waiver, but maybe all he did was dial a number and hand her the phone...?????

[electropop]

24. It wasn't about "discrediting Wilson,"

a phrase I have unfortunately heard even Wilson use. If anything, knowing the CIA sent him, and that his wife had connections, bolster's Wilson's credibility.

It was naked political revenge, an assassination attempt of the literal kind. They endangered her life, and that was the goal.

[longship]

3. This is an important point.

:kick:

[katty]

4. bush wouldn't miss an opportunity for Revenge-he revels in it

[DELUSIONAL]

13. Revenge was part of his motive for invading Iraq --

'cause Saddam tried to kill his daddy. (before bushie could??)

He is a spoiled child -- and he has never grown out of this way of behaving in the world. He is a child emotionally in a man's body -- and perhaps the people who say he's a nice fellow see the child and they have never crossed him.

I don't think he has learned to handle dissent -- I believe that people around him have learned not to contradict him or disagree with him about anything.

Wasn't he part of the political dirty tricks crowd in previous elections?

[PurityOfEssence]

23. Absolutely, and revenge against Daddy, too

He was going to show the world just how butch he was, and he wanted to humiliate his overbearing asshole Dad by doing what Daddy wouldn't dare to do. When trying to understand the motivations of this little nobody, always think petty and immature.

[electropop]

25. Think "Borderline Personality Disorder."

The technical name for the kind of sociopathology Bushitler apparently has.

[rodeodance]

6. was would grand to get the top guy--but his group is tooo loyal to snitch.

[stepnw1f]

7. Bush is da Boss

So yes... he was about the 'Leaking of Plame'!

[rodeodance]

8. good story -glad to see AP is keeping it alive. nominated.

[stepnw1f]

9. Yup... There Was a Lull

But now the story has come back to light... PLUS CINDY. Can you say WOW?

[Old and In the Way]

10. Dimson and Karl were doing political assassinations for decades

together. I have no doubts he was in on the retribution plan. But, like his dad, he'll say he was "out of the loop". Bushes do that.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Rove didn't have to tell Bush anything

It was Bush's idea to begin with. They cooked up the strategy on AF1 and the called Rove back in DC to get the smear campaign rolling.

[Supersedeas]

21. * would have try not to know--which is an indictment of his integrity too

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. This means there will be no punishment.

They will distract from actual action through detail management. Like everything else. Just note whether anything actually happens or not.

[ShockediSay]

14. Jeopardy

Karl Rove

Question

Who's the Prick in the Bush, or Biblically speaking, who's the thorn in the thistles?

[spinbaby]

15. Probe Accents Issue of What Rove Told Bush

Probe Accents Issue of What Rove Told Bush

WASHINGTON - Among the many questions surrounding the investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer is whether President Bush's top political adviser told his boss the truth about his connection to the case.


Two years ago, the White House denied that Karl Rove played any role, but revelations in the past month have shown that Rove spoke with two journalists about the operative, Valerie Plame. Whether Bush knew the truth while the White House was issuing its denials is not publicly known.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_investigation

[ClassWarrior]

16. Rated 5 stars!

NGU.

[acmavm]

17. It may not be 'publically' known according to these guyts, but anyone

who has any doubts that bush** was in it right up to his eyeballs needs to be declared clinically braindead.

[Supersedeas]

18. Helen Thomas has posed this question over and over again

The President could get to the bottom of this, has he?

[FreakinDJ]

19. They need to be impeached

Stupid Freeper minons keep trying to insist she wasn't a covert operative. I tell the idiots you need to do some reading on the CIA's web site because there she is still listed as a "Covert CIA Operative"

STUPID FREEPERS

[loudsue]

20. Do you have a link to the part of the CIA web site where she's

listed as such?

:kick::kick::kick: