The Rove case - Bush says one thing does another
7/20/2005 1:15:00 PM GMT
Hands up those who believed George W. Bush would actually fire his aide, Karl Rove. Rove who was responsible for transforming a Texan “businessman” into a serious politician and thus made himself the second most powerful man in Washington.
President Bush cannot exist without Rove at his side.
It was nothing more than an empty promise when President Bush vowed to fire any White House staffer involved in the revenge outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Now that Rove and Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, have been ‘identified’ as the culprits, Bush changed the standards he himself set by saying -- they must've "committed a crime."
That means indicted, tried and convicted. If Rove and Libby are charged, which seems wholly improbable in any event, the trial could be years away, assuming that the Justice Department, Bush-appointed judges and the Bush-controlled Republican Congress would even think of going up against Rove.
Rove’s influence shouldn’t be underestimated.
The man President Bush calls "The Architect" of his political victories, is hatching his own escape from justice.
He hurried the president into nominating a successor to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, thereby igniting a new Washington controversy and effectively getting the CIA-leaker story out of the main news and off the agenda.
There are numerous other issues which could also capture the headlines and keep the CIA leaker story off the headlines. How about announcing early withdrawal of troops from Iraq? How about all-out efforts to capture Osama bin Laden?
It’s strange that President Bush would suddenly demand waterproof evidence of Rove's and Libby's possibly criminal abuse of a CIA operative cause he certainly didn’t require such irrefutable evidence of Iraq’s WMD’s before invading the sovereign nation.
No ironclad proof was required before he memorably said "Mission Accomplished" about the Iraq war.
Even staunch Republicans see through the Rove cover-up: 71 percent of Republicans in an ABC News national poll this week believe Rove should be fired for being the leaker (83 percent of Democrats) while only 25 percent of the public believe President Bush is cooperating with the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's name.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=9378
Hands up those who believed George W. Bush would actually fire his aide, Karl Rove. Rove who was responsible for transforming a Texan “businessman” into a serious politician and thus made himself the second most powerful man in Washington. President Bush cannot exist without Rove at his side.
It was nothing more than an empty promise when President Bush vowed to fire any White House staffer involved in the revenge outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Now that Rove and Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, have been ‘identified’ as the culprits, Bush changed the standards he himself set by saying -- they must've "committed a crime."
That means indicted, tried and convicted. If Rove and Libby are charged, which seems wholly improbable in any event, the trial could be years away, assuming that the Justice Department, Bush-appointed judges and the Bush-controlled Republican Congress would even think of going up against Rove.
Rove’s influence shouldn’t be underestimated.
The man President Bush calls "The Architect" of his political victories, is hatching his own escape from justice.
He hurried the president into nominating a successor to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, thereby igniting a new Washington controversy and effectively getting the CIA-leaker story out of the main news and off the agenda.
There are numerous other issues which could also capture the headlines and keep the CIA leaker story off the headlines. How about announcing early withdrawal of troops from Iraq? How about all-out efforts to capture Osama bin Laden?
It’s strange that President Bush would suddenly demand waterproof evidence of Rove's and Libby's possibly criminal abuse of a CIA operative cause he certainly didn’t require such irrefutable evidence of Iraq’s WMD’s before invading the sovereign nation.
No ironclad proof was required before he memorably said "Mission Accomplished" about the Iraq war.
Even staunch Republicans see through the Rove cover-up: 71 percent of Republicans in an ABC News national poll this week believe Rove should be fired for being the leaker (83 percent of Democrats) while only 25 percent of the public believe President Bush is cooperating with the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's name.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=9378
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