Rove LTTE help please. Is this fine? Is it done?

[GreenPartyVoter]

There are many questions surrounding the issue of who blew CIA agent Valerie Plame’s cover in retaliation for her husband, Ambassador Wilson, revealing as forgeries the Niger yellowcake uranium documents that provided "proof" for pushing forward with the Iraq war.

For example, are these forgeries what was meant by the Downing Street memo which stated that the “intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of going to war in Iraq?

Who authorized the revelation of Ambassador Wilson’s wife as an undercover weapons of mass destruction operative for the CIA, thus putting her mission and dozens of other operatives at risk?

Why did former Attorney General Ashcroft remove himself from the leak investigation?

If the leak indeed came from a member or members of his staff will President Bush, who promised honor and integrity in the White House, stand by his word and “deal” with the person who created the leak as he promised way back in 2003?

And why is the White House changing its story from “it’s ridiculous” to think that Karl Rove is involved in the leak, that they’ve “made it very clear, he was not involved, that there's no truth to the suggestion that he was” to “This is an ongoing investigation at this point. The president directed the White House to cooperate fully with the investigation, and as part of cooperating fully with the investigation, that means we're not going to be commenting on it while it is ongoing.” Have they been hiding something for two years, or does President Bush have so little control over what his staff does, including Karl Rove, a man his own father once fired for leaking a negative story about Bush supporter Robert Mosbacher to none other than columnist Bob Novak, who features in the Plame story as well?

[Eric J in MN]

1. Does the newspaper usually print letters that long? nt

nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I have no clue. I don't usually do LTTEs, but prefer to blog

[Eric J in MN]

4. Check the avg. length of letters at the newspaper before

sending.

If they usually publish shorter letters, make it shorter.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. All right. Will peruse the other letters in some local papers. :^)

[Eric J in MN]

8. They usually require that you only send it to one paper, so

choose one newspaper.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Ok, will do :^)

[shelley806]

21. Who is They? One newspaper? I've NEVER heard of that one,

Isn't that restricting the right to free expression, freedom of the press, etc? One can express their opinions as freely as possible.

[Lefty48197]

15. Some of the newspapers will say "maximum 400 words" or something like that

Others accept longer pieces as "opinion". I liked your letter. It threw out a lot of bombs at the Republicans, and they can't answer any of them. We need to keep the drumbeat going.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Thanks. I flipped through DU threads and Common Dreams for

important points to add in. I actually had forgotten that Ashcroft had excused himself from the investigation until I ran across it in an article. *doh!*

[Eric J in MN]

20. They say "recused himself" not "excused himself" nt

nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Right, thanks.

[shelley806]

22. For a letter to the editor, this is not long.....nt

[karlrschneider]

3. It's a fine letter, I find no factual, spelling or grammatical errors!

:D
(Somebody asked about a letter "this long"...it isn't too long by any means - I have had 3000 word LTTEs published.)
Send it off! :D

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Thanks. I will send it to several papers in the hopes that one of them

will take it. :^)

[Eric J in MN]

9. They will probably ask you if you sent it anywhere else if

they're thinking of printing it, and if you say "yes," then refuse to print it.

[karlrschneider]

10. I think your odds are better up there than mine here in redneck Okla

:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Prolly. *g*

[me b zola]

7. I really like your LTTE!

You did a great job of tying it to the DSM and the larger picture & players in the WH.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Someone else on Du started a thread on that today. It was the first

thing that popped into my head when I got the call from Skinner to write an ltte on Plamegate and Rove,

[NewJeffCT]

11. good letter, but trim down that last paragraph, or break it up

Check your local Sunday paper & see how long & short the LTTEs are there... most have pretty short paragraphs.

[brooklynite]

17. Substitute something for "blew"...

like expose, reveal, etc. Unless the paper in question is a local tabloid comfortable with printing the angry notes of the "man in the street", you want to come across as "mature" in your language, if you want them to consider printing your letter.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. ok, thanks

[H2O Man]

19. Ashcroft recused himself

because of a prior professional relationship with Rove. In fact, Rove got Ashcroft appointed as Attorney General. I think that your letter is great, although I might use the Ashcroft situation to show why the administration has not been able to investigate itself.

[Booster]

23. It's a very good letter. Send it and may I use some of your

talking points in writing my own?

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Absolutely. And add any others I may have missed. But definitely do

use the DSM tie-in if you can. We have to keep that topic afloat.