http://www.dailytrojan.com/article.do?issue=/V150/N29&id=03-leak.29v.htmlIf President Bush were to deal immediately with this problem it probably wouldn't be much of a problem anymore. But, when an administration repeatedly deceives on grave matters (war, weapons, air quality), one has to assume it's not just a few dissenters that are the culprits. It's part of a much grander problem, which has created consequences far more wide-ranging than revealing one agent's identity. In the case of "leakgate," though, the question that needs to be asked is not who was the leak; it's who gave the order?
The Washington Post quoted Wilson as saying Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove, "at a minimum condoned the leak." It seems hard to believe someone of Karl Rove's standing would be stupid enough to commit what appears to be an act of revenge against Wilson. Actually, it's not that hard to believe, and there's evidence to support the possibility of such an act.
According to an article in the Houston Chronicle last Tuesday, in 1992 Rove was fired as a consultant from the Bush-Quayle Texas campaign for leaking a story that portrayed the Texas presidential operation in disarray. Worse, he was accused of lying about the story because of a feud with the campaign's chairman, saying the chairman was going to be fired. And guess who was one of the columnists Rove leaked the story to? Yes, that's right, Robert Novak.
The very partial Justice Department investigation is unlikely to find out who the leak was, especially when that leak was attacking someone else, instead exposing something about the administration itself.
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