Rove: George Bush faces a political lobotomy - Sunday Herald

[emad]

George Bush faces a political lobotomy if it is proved that Karl Rove, the man they call the President’s Brain, betrayed a CIA agent




Ian Bell



THE White House is in trouble. In this weather, that counts as good news. The reason for the trouble is that George W Bush may be about to lose his brain. Better still, the cause of the trouble goes to the heart of a subject that makes George and all those in his big white house uncomfortable at the best of times: truth and lies.
The possible loss of the presidential brain has nothing to do with trauma or neuro-surgery, of course. In the case of George W, that would be a waste either of a half-brick or operating theatre time. George W, what with the walking and the smiling, is so busy he has other people do his thinking for him. When he needs a brain, he hires one. That would be Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff.

James Moore and Wayne Slater, two American journalists, came up with Rove’s nickname in a biography published two years ago. The book’s subtitle explains the rest: How Karl Rove Made George W Bush Presidential. It is an account of how a political strategist and street fighter dragged an unprepossessing candidate with a colourful history, an uncertain grasp of spoken English, and no obvious credentials from Texas to the Oval Office, smearing opponents every step of the way.

As a result, Bush has leaned heavily on Rove. As a consequence of an addiction to the smear, that support may be about to crumble. To put it another way, Rove, under examination by a grand jury, could be looking at fines of $50,000 and up to 10 years in prison under the America’s Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. And all, allegedly, because Rove did not like an article written in the New York Times by a certain woman’s husband.

Not just any woman. Until a “senior administration official” blew her cover in the summer of 2003, Valerie Plame was an agent for the CIA. According to James Moore, in fact, she was an “NOC”, an operative with “non-official cover”, someone whose existence the agency does not acknowledge publicly, but whose job it is to acquire a persona in business or another professional field while carrying on intelligence work. In Plame’s case, it is now known, this meant running dozens of agents in the field. She was, in the jargon, an intelligence asset and her specialisation – ironies do not come much better – was non-proliferation. It was Plame’s job to check the global spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

http://www.sundayherald.com/50930

[gizmo1979]

1. Bush had his

lobotomy years ago.

[garthranzz]

2. But what of Dick Cheney?

Let's not forget his role as half of the puppet master duo. Limbaugh has proven that a demagogue can maintan support with only half...

[Old and In the Way]

3. Bush becomes even more dependent on Cheney if Rove goes.

That's a scarry thought....

[Cha]

4. This is an excellent article written

by an Englishman..Ian Bell! Thank you.

Bottom line-"For now, in any case, let’s hope Karl Rove is a worried man, and his boss with him."

As "worried" as those mothers and fathers and families of Soldiers being sent off to the Hell rove has created in Iraq!