Is Karl Rove the New Benedict Arnold?
Outing a CIA agent for spite doesn't result in a perjury charge. It begins and ends with treason.
By Matt Hutaff Jul 5, 2005
It was only a matter of time before Karl Rove self-destructed. Thankfully, it looks like that time has come.
Last week's revelation by senior MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell that Rove is, in fact, responsible for "Plamegate" – a two-year scandal involving dirty politics, revenge and veteran CIA agent Valerie Plame – surprises no one. What does surprise me is that he isn't under consideration for execution.
The bastard committed treason, for Pete's sake.
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Karl Rove is a slug, a latter-day Joseph Goebbels. As a true believer of the "dirty trick" mindset that catapulted mentor Donald Segretti into a prison cell, Rove has tarred John McCain as a homosexual, a collaborator and an adulterer (wife Cindy was relegated to mere drug addict status) and has stated that liberals and Democrats give aid and comfort to terrorists. It's been alleged he had New Hampshire's celebrated Old Man of the Mountain demolished out of spite. Nothing is beneath Rove and his tolerance for someone who doesn't buy his administration's message is non-existent.
The Valerie Plame affair has all the trappings of a Rovian smear campaign – demolish one's opponent through intimidation and manipulation. Plame's CIA status was blown as a means of retaliation against husband Joseph Wilson, a former Ambassador and Bush administration agitator. Wilson had denounced claims put forth in President Bush's State of the Union speech in 2003 that Saddam Hussein was seeking "Yellow Cake" uranium from Niger (the obvious implication being nuclear armament). A week later, bloated sycophant and CNN pundit Robert Novak fired back with both barrels.
What better way to silence a critic than mark his spouse for death?
Whether you feel Plame's outing constitutes a real danger to her or Wilson's life is irrelevant. Revealing such information is treasonous, and Rove knows it. But will this explosive allegation carry any weight in Washington, D.C.? In a country where the president can lie to the nation and ignore its citizens as he bullies far-off lands with depleted uranium shells, is there any threat of culpability for Bush's right-hand man?
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