07/12/05 "Treasongate: It's not just Karl Rove" 
             by Ted Rall

   "Karl Rove, on the other hand, has already been found out 
    as a likely traitor to the United States. Now we must 
    work backwards. Does his exposure help to explain some of 
    the Administration's most baffling foreign policy 
    blunders?

    No matter how remote, we must now consider the 
    possibility that Karl Rove may in the employ of, and/or 
    receiving money from, a terrorist organization such as Al 
    Qaeda. Alternatively, could he be in the employ of a 
    hostile foreign government? If he betrayed a CIA agent, 
    Rove is a traitor and therefore capable of anything. Only 
    an exhaustive investigation of his and his associates' 
    anti-American activities, up to and including those 
    committed by George W. Bush, can resolve these questions."

    07/14/05 - "Dems Urge Denial of Security Clearances" to Rove

    Senate Democrats, including Schumer, pushed for 
    legislation Thursday to deny security clearances to 
    officials who disclose the identity of an undercover 
    agent, but the measure was voted down. The amendment, 
    clearly a response to the controversy surrounding Rove, 
    was offered by Sens. Harry Reid or Nevada, Jay 
    Rockefeller of West Virginia, Joe Biden of Delaware and 
    Dick Durbin of Illinois.

   "No federal employee who discloses, or has disclosed, 
    classified information, including the identity of a 
    covert agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, to a 
    person not authorized to receive such information shall 
    be permitted to hold a security clearance for access to 
    such information," the amendment language read.

    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it 
    whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and 
    applying the wrong remedy.