This CIA story is huge and here is why

[59millionmorons]

Not only does this show what scumbags are in the White House, but it brings back the memories of those infamous 16 words.

[diplomats]

1. Good point

and now we're hearing those wonderful words "special prosecutor"!

[Caution]

2. The biggest reason it is HUGE is because

it survived the Friday release.

[janekat]

3. Yup - the infamous "release a story on Friday in order to kill it".....

Didn't work this time. NOW we have a WHOLE WEEK to hear about it.

[soothsayer]

4. That's not the reason it's huge, it's EVIDENCE that it is huge

...and it is huge! I hope.

[kentuck]

5. En even bigger reason it is a big story...

It involves the media themselves. The networks are at war. If they can sense an advantage one way or another, they will jump at it. They are very competitive.

[huckleberry]

6. Americans love spy stories with

intrique, mystery, treason, etc. Almost as much as they love sex stories!

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. Dominos

PLEASE GOD

dominos !!!!!

[pretzel4gore]

8. now if God has a heart...

(S)he'll do it! ;-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Remember Watergate, it wasn't the crime, it was the cover-up

Now that the WH is scurrying to defend Rove and claim he is not the source, they are actively covering up a crime.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Remember Watergate, it wasn't the crime, it was the cover-up

Now that the WH is scurrying to defend Rove and claim he is not the source, they are actively covering up a crime.

[leftchick]

11. contrast and compare the "threat to national security"

smirk and company refuse to release those redacted pages from the Sept. 11 report due to a potential threat to national security. Yet a couple of the thugs in the WH (rove, card, cheney?) have deliberately threatened our national security by outing the CIA agent for political gains. Contrast and compare which is more threatening to our security.

[Minstrel Boy]

12. John Dean called for a special prosecutor before the leak

in order to sort out Bush's rationale for going to war From his July 18 column:

"What I found, in critically examining Bush's evidence, is not pretty. The African uranium matter is merely indicative of larger problems, and troubling questions of potential and widespread criminality when taking the nation to war. It appears that not only the Niger uranium hoax, but most everything else that Bush said about Saddam Hussein's weapons was false, fabricated, exaggerated, or phony.

...

"So egregious and serious are Bush's misrepresentations that they appear to be a deliberate effort to mislead Congress and the public. So arrogant and secretive is the Bush White House that only a special prosecutor can effectively answer and address these troubling matters. Since the Independent Counsel statute has expired, the burden is on President Bush to appoint a special prosecutor - and if he fails to do so, he should be held accountable by Congress and the public.

In making this observation, I realize that some Republicans will pound the patriotism drum, claiming that anyone who questions Bush's call to arms is politicizing the Iraqi war. But I have no interest in partisan politics, only good government - which is in serious trouble when we stop debating these issues, or absurdly accuse those who do of treason."
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