SEN. SCHUMER'S 'OUTRAGE'
NEW YORK POST
opinion/editorial
July 15, 2005
Need more proof that the wolves nipping at Karl Rove's heels are basically out- for-blood Democrats?
Joseph Wilson, the widely discredited, Bush-bashing former CIA consultant whose wife was "outed" as an agency employee, yesterday demanded that Rove's security clearance immediately be lifted.
And he did so standing shoulder-to-shoulder with New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer — head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose chief responsibility is to elect more Democrats to the Senate.
And the DSCC's Web site is flogging an online petition demanding that the White House "stop the Karl Rove coverup" — and, by the way, soliciting: "Help to build the critical financial resources so we can help our candidates and achieve a Democratic Senate majority."
What's ironic about this sudden sense of moral outrage is that congressional Democrats — including then-Rep. Chuck Schumer — fought hard back in 1982 to defeat the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was enacted at President Ronald Reagan's insistence after rogue CIA agent Philip Agee publicly named covert agents and agency sources abroad.
Sen. Joe Biden — who now is demanding Rove's removal over a "national security breach" — warned back then that the bill would "harm, not help, our national security." And The New York Times demanded that the courts "wipe the law from the books."
Now, hoping to score a major hit on the president, they're singing an entirely different tune. Hypocrisy as usual. One question, though: How does Schumer keep a straight face?
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