Seattle-PI editorial -- White House Leaks: A serious security matter

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Seattle-PI editorial -- White House Leaks: A serious security matter

Edited on Mon Jul-11-05 09:34 PM by understandinglife

White House Leaks: A serious security matter

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

July 12, 2005

President Bush has plenty of evidence to begin acting on Karl Rove's involvement in the disclosure of a secret agent's name to exact political vengeance. The president's choice will say a lot about whether he intends to control abuses of power within what some see as one of the most power-hungry administrations the United States has ever experienced.

The president ought to be outraged that, so far, one reporter has gone to jail for acting honestly while some in his administration continue to be free of consequences for revealing Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative. The leak of her name and role to Bush-friendly columnist Robert Novak in 2003 was a violation of federal law, if done deliberately.

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The president would bring credit to himself and his administration by firing Rove immediately. Whether or not Rove violated the law, his actions on behalf of the administration broke trust with the American people and with the president's own stated view of the matter. Minimally, enough is known that the president must suspend Rove and cease all contacts with Rove until the investigation is complete. Rove, it appears, cannot be trusted with the United States' secrets.

Bush should also ask the prosecutor to seek the release of Miller from prison while the president urgently and personally renews his call for White House officials to help get to the bottom of the affair. Rove and others apparently didn't get the message nearly two years go when the president said, "I'd like to know who leaked, and if anybody has got any information inside our government ... you ought to take it to the Justice Department." Rather than letting an innocent journalist be imprisoned to clear up a matter of White House misconduct, Bush should be cleaning out his administration.

Link:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/232103_roved.asp

I like the 'frame' of this editorial because it places the responsiblity firmly where it has always belonged - On Bu$h.

I doubt that Mr Fitzgerald has Ms Miller in jail because she is innocent.

And, I think as each moment passes, Bu$h's ineffective management of the situation makes it ever more likely that Rove is hardly the only White House occupant who participated in the vile act of outing Ms Plame and the numerous vile consequences of that action.

Link to a series of relevant news items from today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4071844

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."