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behavior is bad

Beyond the question of President Bush keeping his word and firing deputy chief of staff Karl Rove over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name is a more important issue. Has Rove remained silent for the past two years during an ongoing investigation ("President says he'll fire anyone who committed a crime in CIA leak," News, Tuesday)?
Why didn't Rove step forward and admit that he might have been the leak? Instead, for two years taxpayers' money has been spent on a special investigation to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Karl seems to have sat silently and let it proceed.

I think ethics like those are more than enough to justify his dismissal — even if he is not technically guilty of breaking the law. It seems more and more our federal government employees and politicians confuse "being unethical" with "breaking the law." They are not one and the same, but both are wrong.

Kenneth Alexander

Canton, Ohio

Point to columnist's role

Concerning the controversy involving Karl Rove, it seems to me the obvious finger-pointing isn't being done. Why isn't the media policing itself and asking why the journalist who exposed Valerie Plame is not being held accountable for his role?

After all, even if guilty, Rove did not ultimately write and print the article that exposed Plame's identity. That was columnist Robert Novak. If the safety and the security of our nation's intelligence were at stake, then how could Novak and his editor publicly announce the identity of the CIA officer?

They are just as guilty of wrongdoing as the person who leaked the name. Hold them accountable, too. Then maybe the news media as a whole can be held to a higher standard.

Come on people, we are all on the same side, aren't we?

Kenny Rogers

Dyersburg, Tenn.

---Wonder is that THE Kenny Rogers...? He He..Red States are awake.--