Lawrence O'Donnell: The One Very Good Reason Karl Rove Might Be Indicted

[Hepburn]

Lawrence O'Donnell: The One Very Good Reason Karl Rove Might Be Indicted

First, and most obviously, Valerie Plame had to be a covert agent when Rove exposed her to Cooper. It’s not obvious that she was. The law has a specific definition of covert agent that she might not fit -- an overseas posting in the last five years, for example. But it’s hard to believe the prosecutor didn’t begin the grand jury session with a CIA witness certifying that Plame was a covert agent. If the prosecutor couldn’t establish that, why bother moving on to the next witness?

Second, Rove had to know she was a covert agent. Cooper’s article refers to Plame as “a CIA official.” Most CIA officials are not covert agents.

Third, Rove had to know that the CIA was taking “affirmative measures” to hide her identity. Doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a political operative would or should know.

Fourth, Rove had to be “authorized” to have classified information about covert agents or at least this one covert agent. Doesn’t seem like the kind of security clearance a political operative would or should have.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050707/cm_huffpost/003769/nc:742

[wakeme2008]

1. bad link. :(

[Zensea]

2. here it is

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050707/cm_huffpost/003769

[Hepburn]

6. Thanks!

The link I had came up weird. Wonder why....???

[Hepburn]

4. Dang....I tried to link it again....

...and got the same results! Must be a flaw in the link itself. I will keep an eye on the story and see if I can up-date for a good link.

Sorry!

[wtbymark]

3. hmmm, i don't see the good reason

looks to me like 4 talking points as to why he's innocent and it's someone else - where'd you get this?

[Hepburn]

5. It was from Yahoo....and it came up on Google News...

....let me see if I can link it that way:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Rove%2C+Plame&btnG=Search+News

Above is the Google News page....look down the page for the title of the story.

[Pirate Smile]

7. I posted this a little while ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4035468&mesg_id=4035468

The 8 blank pages and the fact that the Judge wanted to give them a privilege but the facts and charges are too dire show the severity of this case.

[Hepburn]

8. Thanks for the heads up!

What I saw as the difference was that in this case, Miller and Cooper were PART of the crime ~ "exposing" the name of the CIA operative. It was not like they were helping a whistleblower (like Bernstein and Woodward in Watergate), but rather they were being used to commit the crime by the WH source. Or in the case of Miller, it would appear that an attempt was made to use her ~ since she did not do an article about this.

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. Direct link >>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/lawrence-odonnell/the-one-very-good-reason-_3769.html