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![]() Just Above Sunset
July 3, 2005 - Bush's Brain (Karl Rove) Suddenly Exposed
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As the friends of young
Harry Potter would say, the news is of "He Who Cannot Be Named" - breaking late in the week, Friday night, after the news
cycles closed - NEW YORK - Now that Time
Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source
in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight,
on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know
that name - and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove. The business with Time
Magazine keeping its reporter out of jail, and avoiding big fines, by releasing his confidential sources, and the New
York Times going the other way, isn't just a media story now. (Quick summary
here.) It seems something is up. Rove
is, it seems, the fellow who exposed the name of a covert CIA agent, ended her career, and possibly shut down a number of
intelligence gathering operations on loose nuclear weapons, in order to punish her husband for telling on Rove's boss, George
Bush. Robert Novak is the one journalist who published the name. The other day, on the
CNN show Crossfire, Robert Novak called Moore un-American. Simply un-American. Of course Novak is the man who gladly
published the name of an undercover CIA agent (Valerie Plame) who had been working on our efforts to get nuclear stuff off
the black market. He blew her cover to help punish her husband for exposing Bush and crew fibbing about Iraq trying to buy
yellowcake uranium in Niger. He sees no problem with that. Yeah, he knows a lot about a being a good American. One year later Novak is
still in the clear and still a star on CNN, while Miller and Cooper, who published nothing, face jail time. Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald
has stated in court pleadings that he already knows the identity of Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper's sources regarding the
senior white house official who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to Robert Novak. Ah, it's not the crime
so much as the cover-up. This sounds familiar, kind of like the good old days
of the early seventies. I revealed in yesterday's
taping of the McLaughlin Group that Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source.
I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury. With Bush in Europe, the
turmoil mounting over the Supreme Court nomination to come, selling the war not going well, the news on the ground dismal
and recruiting figures in trouble, with dismantling Social Security seeming less and less likely - would Newsweek really
kick Bush when he's down by running with a story that his chief advisor and life-long friend pulled an illegal dumb-ass revenge
trick and then lied about it? ... We all remember what
Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, said two years ago: "At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White
House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words." Indeed. __ Digby
over at Hullabaloo quotes Gore Vidal in 2003 - Yet you saw in the '60s how the Johnson
administration collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. Likewise with Nixon. And now with the discontent over how the war in Iraq is playing out, don't you get
the impression that Bush is headed for the same fate? Will it go away? |
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