Keeping Rove on the Hot Seat
Posted on July 6th, 2005 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Over at the Huffington Post, Lawrence O’Donnell is pretty convinced that Karl Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, is full of it. He thinks that Luskin is using lawyerly language to suggest that Rove had nothing to do with the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identityâsaying, for example, that Rove never “knowingly disclosed classified information.”
Couple of things…
One, I’m enjoying watching O’Donnell keep the heat on, but where has he been for the past year or so? O’Donnell says he’s only now going public with his information that it was Rove because he didn’t want to “dragged” before a grand jury. So, in other words, after other journalists have taken all the heat, O’Donnell gets to enjoy his scoop.
That’s not exactly a textbook definition of courage.
Second, how does O’Donnell respond to the Washington Post story discussed below in which Luskin flat-out denies that Rove disclosed Plame’s identity? On the HuffPo, he ignores it…..
Oh, one final thing: Why are conservatives so silent on this matter? You know that if it were the Clinton White House involved, they’d be screaming bloody murder. But outing a CIA agent is a scandal regardless of which political party does it. At the very least, it appears to be against the law, and in a larger sense, it may be treasonous.
I’m sure that conservatives are patriots too, and therefore deeply disturbed by the idea that a White House operative may have been responsible. Right? Anyone there?