Attention Air America Radio Listener,

Air America Radio needs your help to get a traitor out of the White House. For two years, we've known that someone in the White House undermined America by maliciously leaking the identity of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame to punish her husband for criticizing the Bush Administration. And now what many suspected has finally been revealed: the leaker is President Bush's closest advisor, the man they call "Bush's Brain" – none other than Karl Rove.

A growing chorus of voices is calling on President Bush to fire Karl Rove – including Air America Radio hosts and listeners. The White House will try to say that Americans don't care about this. They'll try to pass it off as an "inside the Beltway" issue.

That's why today we're asking you to help our hosts by adding your name to our Air America Radio petition calling for Bush to fire Karl Rove. Please help us show that Air America Radio listeners are outraged about treason in the White House by signing right now:

http://www.airamericaradio.com/petition/

George Bush has never been in such a "bad spot," as one reporter put it at Monday's White House press briefing. When this scandal first came up in 2003, the Bush White House said unambiguously: "If anyone in this Administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this Administration.” (Scott McClellan, 9/29/03, White House press briefing)

The President must now make good on his word. By signing our petition, you'll be helping Air America Radio do its job as the country's leading progressive media outlet to bring pressure to bear on the Bush White House that won’t let up until Karl Rove has had his security clearance revoked and is barred from the White House.

Here are the facts about this case:

Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative who worked in the field of WMD counter-proliferation.

After her husband published an editorial in The New York Times critical of the Bush Administration, Valerie Plame's name and her CIA affiliation were leaked to a number of news sources.

Right-wing hack Bob Novak published a column outing Valerie Plame and effectively ending her career.

One of those who received the leak about Valerie Plame’s identity was Matt Cooper – his source: Karl Rove.

By exposing her identity, Rove destroyed a valuable asset in the war on terror. But even worse than that, he potentially exposed and endangered a network of intelligence assets throughout the world that Plame had built painstakingly over an entire career.

We will never know just how much damage Rove did, nor how many lives he ruined.

With 65 stations across the country, Air America is beginning to have the critical mass to make a real impact at crucial moments like these.

Show that Air America Radio has become a political force to be reckoned with.

Sign our petition and help Air America Radio send a message to the White House.

Thank you,
The Air America Radio Team
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For further reading:
The Michael Isikoff Newsweek piece that definitively revealed Rove as the source:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/
Monday's "ridiculous" press briefing:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050711-3.html
The first of no doubt a flood of newspaper editorials calling for Rove to be fired:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/12/EDG8HDLC431.DTL
And Howard Kurtz asks the inevitable: " Frog-Marching Time for Rove?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/12/BL2005071200330.html