Karl Rove charges dropped
Posted by Moonage on 13 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Ethics
In July 2005, Nancy Pelosi had this to say about Karl Rove:
“The president has said that anyone who leaked the identity of Ms. Plame should no longer be part of his administration. €¦ That means firing Karl Rove and anyone else in the White House if they identified her as a CIA clandestine service officer,” she said.
Rove’s lawyer has denied that Rove mentioned Plame by name.
Pelosi went on to suggest that the White House might have obstructed an official inquiry into the matter. “The president said two years ago that he wanted to get to the bottom of this. If he were sincere, it would have happened [sooner]. €¦ It looks to me that there may have been some effort by people in the White House to obstruct the investigation,” she said.
Harry Reid, John Kerry, Bob Menendez all joined the chorus.
Meanwhile, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee sent a letter to the White House yesterday calling on President Bush to suspend the security clearance of Rove.
“There is ample precedent for suspending the security clearances of people under suspicion of leaking classified information,” the letter states.
All nine Democrats on the committee signed the letter. Rep. Jane Harmon (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, released the letter to reporters during a press briefing yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) sent an “open letter” to Rove e-mailed it to supporters.
The letter, written by DSCC Deputy Executive Director Ann Lewis, calls on Rove and Bush to “step up and accept responsibility” for whatever role the White House played in revealing Plame’s identity.
The entire Democrat Party jumped all over Rove. The media jumped right in as well. And of course, the blog world was ALL over it. Now, we get this:
Seems the Dems were a bit hasty in calling for an innocent man’s resignation now weren’t they? How many do you think will now offer public apologies for pre-judging and innocent man? Will the DSCC send an open letter to Rove apologizing? Will Pelosi apologize for lumping all Republicans together as corrupt when her own party members now outnumber the Republicans in indictments? Will CNN what all these people did? Will Kos apologize and admit his posse doesn’t have a clue what they’re screaming about?
I’m not holding my breath.
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