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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Remember, It's About the "Rule of Law"
Hmm, this could get interesting. It's now been revealed that none other than Karl Rove was Matthew Cooper's source for the Plame leak. It's also been rumored that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is investigating possible perjury by the leaker during Fitzgerald's investigation. Which creates some really delicious possibilities.
You have the situation where Karl Rove, the most powerful person in the World, could be indicted for perjury and then the Bush White House would have to figure out what to do with him. And this wouldn't be John Sasso leaking a videotape about Joe Biden not crediting a Neil Kinnock speech the 500th time he used it, but rather perjury involving blowing a CIA operative's cover and endangering our national security. Could Democrats really be so lucky as to get rid of the evil genius?
It would also be great to see how the same people who lambasted Clinton about his alleged perjury concerning sex deal with alleged perjury about blowing a CIA operative's cover.
After all, this is what Bush Sr. said in 1999 about what Rove would be accused of:
Your mission is different now than it was back then. The Soviet Union is no
more. Some people think, "what do we need intelligence for?" My answer to that
is we have plenty of enemies. Plenty of enemies abound. Unpredictable leaders
willing to export instability or to commit crimes against humanity.
Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, narco-trafficking,
people killing each other, fundamentalists killing each other in the name of
God. These and more. Many more. As our analysts know, as our collectors of
intelligence know - these are our enemies. To combat them we need more
intelligence, not less. We need more human intelligence. That means we need more
protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for
our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives
for their country.
Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing
the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of
traitors.
Remember back to 1998 everyone: it's about the "rule of law." (And as if that comparison isn't apt enough, Michael Isokoff, a veteran from the 1998 battle, is up on Newsweek with a story about Rove and Plame.)
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