Rove violation only one flame in conflagration

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Rove violation only one flame in conflagration

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411276


If Deep Throat had ultimate justice (and perhaps some retribution) in mind when he led the trail of Watergate to Nixon, the intent of Karl Rove, the alleged Shallow Lips of Plamegate, lacks any such lofty value. Plamegate refers to the growing scandal of a White House office likely betraying an undercover CIA agent in order to get at a ''political enemy.''

The intent for Rove was to destroy the credibility of the agent's husband, a career diplomat who correctly questioned a significant intelligence claim - Saddam's alleged purchase of uranium from Niger - used to justify the hyped-up war against Iraq. The senior U.S. diplomat was Joseph Wilson, who had been assigned by the U.S. government to get the facts and whose measured assessment contradicted the rush to judgment of a Bush government already committed to a war of invasion and occupation. His wife's name, Valerie Plame, was first revealed by acerbic pundit Robert Novak.