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To: Ilaine who wrote (124833)	7/12/2005 2:41:00 PM
From: MichaelSkyy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793871

boortz.com From Boortz.... SO .. WHAT ABOUT THE KARL ROVE STORY? Sooner or later this week I'm going to get an email from someone saying "Hey, how come you aren't talking about how Karl Rove broke the law Boortz! Why aren't you talking about how he outed Valerie Plame? What's the matter, Boortz? You can't admit that Bush should fire Karl Rove because he broke the law?" OK ... let's deal with it now. First question ... did he violate the law? Violations of the law must, by necessity, be very specific. The law that Rove is being accused by the left of violating says that he must knowingly reveal the name of a current CIA undercover operative the identity of whom the CIA is actively trying to conceal. The leftist fantasy among the those in the mainstream media that Karl Rove is going to be arrested and charged with outing a covert CIA agent just isn't supported by the facts. Rove spoke to Matthew Cooper at Time magazine off the record, and made reference that Joseph Wilson was sent by the CIA to Niger to investigate whether or not Saddam Hussein sought to buy materials to make nuclear weapons there. In Cooper's e-mails, released by Time, Rove makes mention that Wilson was sent at the behest of his wife, who worked at the CIA. No name was given. No name, no broken law. The prosecutor in the case has said Rove is not the target. Rove's statement isn't in and of itself a crime. Careless? Perhaps ... but not a crime. Rove's statement only becomes a crime if it can be shown that Wilson's wife was actually an undercover agent at the time the statement was made (this has not been shown) and that Rove was aware of this fact. You also have to show that the CIA was actively trying to protect the identity of Valerie Plame. So ... for those of you who are so elated over the possibility of finally nailing the hated Karl Rove ... make your case. Show me: That Rove specifically named Valerie Plame. That Valerie Plame was, in fact, working undercover for the CIA. (Looks like a desk job to me.) That Rove knew Valerie Plame was working undercover for the CIA. That the CIA was actively trying, and that Karl Rove knew that the CIA was actively trying to protect the identity of Valerie Plame at the time Rove made his statement to the reporter. When establish those facts, I'll have further comment. Pesky things, facts.