CNN: Kerry and Clinton say "Fire Rove" at Press Conf. - (VIDEO)

[dzika]

July 12, 2005

Video - CNN: Kerry and Clinton say "Fire Rove" at Press Conf.

Kerry makes an excellent statement about how Rove's leak relates to national security.




Video in Windows Media format (1 minute)

[Zenlitened]

1. Sweet!

:applause:

[ewagner]

2. Careful there

don't show too much backbone!

[LittleClarkie]

5. It's okay

folks who don't like them won't notice anyway.

Geez I wish I coulda seen it. Rats.

[YvonneCa]

3. YAAAAAAY!!!!!!

Go, John Kerry!!!!!!!!!! LOUDER ! :patriot:

[LittleClarkie]

4. They held a press conference!?

Isn't that what folks have been calling for? Visibility from our Dems?

Wait. Hillary or Bill? Hillary right?

If so, then let me give props to a woman I'm not terribly fond of. Yesterday, Alfred E. Newman. Today, a press conference to fire Rove.

You go girl!

[Mass]

6. The conference was on Homeland Security

Kerry talked about Rove just at the end, and linked that to security.

[TayTay]

8. Did ANyone watch the Border Security ForRelComm hearing?

I had a meeting and couldn't watch. Was it any good?

[fooj]

7. Thanks Dzika!

How've you been? Finally got a new computer so I can play the videos that you so generously provide for us! Take care.

peace.

[kerrygoddess]

9. John Kerry Works to Secure America's Ports

Thanks for the video clip! I posted it on LUTD!

John Kerry Works to Secure America's Ports
12 July 2005

Senator John Kerry will offer an amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill today that aims at fixing gaping holes in the agency's work to secure America's ports.

"Almost four years after September 11th, our port security is in alarming shape, and the attacks on soft targets in London are a chilling reminder why there is no time to wait. The Administration has been asleep at the switch while shipload after shipload of cargo slips into our ports uninspected. We've spent more on the Capitol Visitors' Center than on the Port Security Grant Program. The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said that only a fraction of the money awarded for port security grants has actually been spent, and much of what has been spent has been badly mismanaged. We have to fix this mess, fix it right away, and hold the administration accountable for getting this right," said Senator Kerry.

MORE - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1242

[GracieM]

10. I'm worried about this....

could be because I haven't followed everything as close as I'd like.

I don't want Rove fired now though. I want him convicted while still a part of the administration. Making sure that W is good and covered with this shit.

I afraid that if Rove is fired now, W might be able to come out clean somehow. "I didn't know, when I found out, I fired him and prosecuted him."

Rove might just take one for the team. We need to keep him close to Bush as long as possible.

[Dr Fate]

12. The Bush admin NEVER admits they are wrong.

I doubt they will fire him.

[GracieM]

14. You are prolly right...

...I hope so...I think?

[Dr Fate]

11. Great stuff- "Star" DEMs need to keep this in the echo chamber.

Keep it up JFK!

[kerrygoddess]

13. Full statement from Kerry's press office

John Kerry: America's National Security - Not Karl Rove's Job Security - Should be Administration's Only Priority Reiterates Call for Rove to be Fired
12 July 2005

Senator John Kerry said today, in the wake of last week's terror attacks in London and at a time when the Senate is focused on homeland security, that the White House "cares more about the job security of top aides than homeland security." Senator Kerry made the following statement at a press conference on homeland security today after he was asked about senior White House aide Karl Rove's involvement in the outing of a CIA agent.

Below is a Statement by Senator Kerry:

"It is now evident, through email and through other sources, that Karl Rove released information to a reporter which made it patently clear who Valerie Plame was -- blowing her cover as a covert operative and endangering her, those she works with, and any foreign intelligence sources she may have had. It has been the stated policy of the White House for the past two years that they would fire anyone who released that information.

"Even if Karl Rove didn't say her name point-blank, by identifying Ambassador Wilson's wife as working for the CIA, he revealed classified information. All anyone has to do then is go his biography or his curriculum vitae, and boom -- you've got her name. So this administration deliberately released her identity. That is clear.

"Yesterday at Quantico the President said very clearly to CIA folks that they have a dangerous job and that they need assistance. Well, the President has to mean his words. If their policy is that outing and jeopardizing a covert CIA agent is unacceptable behavior, the president will fire Karl Rove.

"Then the question is what are the White House's fundamental values? Is it the value of day-to-day politics, the value of political advice? Is the value of Karl Rove's position greater than the value of the national security of our country? Is he more important than the protection of the identity of CIA agents or even George Bush's own word?

"The White House's credibility is at issue here, and I believe very clearly that Karl Rove ought to be fired."

MORE - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1244

[gratuitous]

17. Nicely swung, John

Now follow through on this, please!

Excellent questions, all. What does the White House value? Does it place politics above national security? That frames the question quite well and makes it very understandable even to the attentionally deficited.

Now follow through, please!

[cindyw]

15. There you go again John being reasonable and saying what must be said.

:-)

[LittleClarkie]

16. And looking good doing it...

(piddy pat) Oh excuse me. I'll reel in the estrogen.

[cindyw]

18. *chuckle*