Thursday, June 15, 2006

Why Karl Rove isn't being indicted

Didn't he out a CIA agent? Isn't that a federal offense? Not if the president says he authorized declassification of her identity, which, after loud mouthing about how he was going after anyone who leaked the identity in question to "take care" of them, he now claims he did, maybe retroactively. (Doesn't he have to sign and date anything about that?)

So the prosecution can't prove it was illegal for the president's hatchet man to reveal the identity of a US secret operative for political reasons. Does that make it right? Does that mean the public shouldn't be outraged about this?

Why is the media spin all about how the White House is now exonerated because nothing illegal was done, or at least nothing illegal could be proven. As Cicero noted about another threat to another Republic:

O tempora! O mores!

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