Rove-gate: Who Leaked to the Leakers? It's not about Rove!

[housewolf]

Woo-Hoo, hang on to your hats, boys and girls!


Rove-gate: Who Leaked to the Leakers?
This isn't about Karl Rove
by Justin Raimondo

What if Karl Rove isn't guilty of knowingly leaking Valerie Plame's name as a covert CIA agent involved in nuclear proliferation issues? What if Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, is correct when he says that he's been assured by prosecutors that his client is not a target of the ongoing investigation into Plame-gate? I'm going to swim against the tide, here, and against the expectations of my readers, by suggesting that this investigation isn't about Rove – and, furthermore, that Rove is a victim, in an important sense, someone who was used and abused by the real culprits. And who are these mysterious culprits? We'll get to that in a moment, but first some background…

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The publication of her maiden name not only endangered Valerie Wilson, but also blew the cover of a CIA front and imperiled anyone she might have come in contact with during her stint overseas. This isn't just a matter of of violating a statute that, at most, entails a 10-year jail sentence and a fine – this is a question of possible espionage.

What also seems fairly clear is that Karl Rove would not have had direct knowledge of Plame-Wilson's covert activities on behalf of the CIA, and that only a very few people high up in the national security bureaucracy had the clearance to get access to her name. So who was it? If Rove leaked to Novak, and half a dozen Washington reporters, then who leaked to the leakers?

This isn't about Rove.

It's about a cabal of war hawks inside the administration who passed on this information to others without telling them about Plame-Wilson's deep cover status,

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The leakers, in order to protect themselves, "laundered" the leak through journalists (Judith Miller, one of their favorite conduits) and Bush operatives – Rove. In his book, The Politics of Truth, Joe Wilson says as much:

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read...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6677

[Starone]

1. Excellent Article

Makes sense to me; puts all the pieces into place.

[housewolf]

2. It's a pretty complex puzzle

much more complex than merely Rove

[Starone]

4. When Rove's counsel says he's not the target

it makes you wonder who exactly is.....this article definitely describes the "who."

[Trimble_OK]

3. Thank you so much

for this informative article! We can only hope...

[Emit]

5. I posted this article yesterday (er, early a.m. maybe...)

And it was temporarily locked by the Mods for being an unreliable source. See link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1930463



Anyway, from all the "Rove" news today, the discussions I've read about espionage recently, the idea that this is really beyond Rove, and, finally, from the info that Wilson himself has discussed on various shows in the last few days, this article overall, I thought, had some good points and connected some more dots. Thanks for reposting it. Maybe we can revisit some of the details in the article.

[housewolf]

7. Hmmm... curious

I've posted articles from antiwar.com frequently, many credible journalists post articles there. It is not by any means a "tin foil hat" site. They post regular news stories as well as personally-written editorials and have been active on the web since Kosovo. Very curious. Kudos to you for questioning the mods actions, I'm glad they unlocked your thread.

Justin's article really gives a divverent perspective from many that have been referenced here in the past few days.

[xxqqqzme]

6. thanx - that's a keeper

printing now