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Democrat Party Keeping Its Focus on Karl Rove

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-14 09:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of Rove's secret fax-memos, the instruments of his control over the entire universe, can be seen here.

Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone.

Posted by Mike 2005-09-14 10:00|| 2005-09-14 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Can they call me The Evil Karl Rove? My wife says that makes her hot. Thanks a lot...

Posted by Karl Rove 2005-09-14 10:03|| 2005-09-14 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Andrew C. McCarthy writing for NRO. Hat tip to Michelle Malkin. EFL:
Just four months ago, 36 news organizations confederated to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. At the time, Bush-bashing was (no doubt reluctantly) confined to an unusual backseat. The press had no choice - it was time to close ranks around two of its own, namely, the Times's Judith Miller and Time's Matthew Cooper, who were threatened with jail for defying grand jury subpoenas from the special prosecutor.
The media's brief, is fairly short and extremely illuminating. The Times, which is currently spearheading the campaign against Rove and the Bush administration, encouraged its submission. It was joined by a "who's who" of the current Plame stokers, including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, AP, Newsweek, Reuters America, the Washington Post, the Tribune Company (which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun, among other papers), and the White House Correspondents (the organization which represents the White House press corps in its dealings with the executive branch).
The thrust of the brief was that reporters should not be held in contempt or forced to reveal their sources in the Plame investigation. Why? Because, the media organizations confidently asserted, no crime had been committed. Now, that is stunning enough given the baleful shroud the press has consciously cast over this story. Even more remarkable, though, were the key details these self-styled guardians of the public's right to know stressed as being of the utmost importance for the court to grasp - details those same guardians have assiduously suppressed from the coverage actually presented to the public.
Though you would not know it from watching the news, you learn from reading the news agencies' brief that the 1982 law prohibiting disclosure of undercover agents' identities explicitly sets forth a complete defense to this crime. It is contained in Section 422 (of Title 50, U.S. Code), and it provides that an accused leaker is in the clear if, sometime before the leak, "the United States ha[s] publicly acknowledged or revealed" the covert agent's "intelligence relationship to the United States[.]"
As it happens, the media organizations informed the court that long before the Novak revelation (which, as noted above, did not disclose Plame's classified relationship with the CIA), Plame's cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz - an old-school, "let's find out what really happened" kind of journalist. Gertz's relevant article was published a year ago in the Washington Times.
THE MEDIA TELLS THE COURT: PLAME'S COVER WAS BLOWN IN THE MID-1990s
As the media alleged to the judges (in Footnote 7, page 8, of their brief), Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-14 10:58|| 2005-09-14 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 LinkTV considers Rove right up there with Hitler and is releasing a show called "Bush's Brain" in which they claim that Rove is the evil brain of Bush.

This was followed by "Harry Bellefonte" pleading for more money for LinkTV to persue their great informative projects like "Bush's Brain". "They are making us aware of the major dangers of our times."

Next up was "How the Patroit Act Ruined My Life."
This evil Rovian Act.

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-14 13:01|| 2005-09-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Do they realize that Rove is neither elected, nor running for any office?

Or that they're facing having one of their governors being responsible for the deaths of hundreds and endangering thousands?

Or that, well, they're a party of traitors, moonbats, and clowns?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-14 13:04|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-14 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 " In a statement released on July 19, the Democratic National Committee suggested that President Bush had nominated Judge John Roberts to torpedo the Rove story."

Close circut to Howard Dean: Those stunts only work on the lemurs in the Democratic Party.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-09-14 15:27|| 2005-09-14 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Lemurs, or lemmings?

Posted by Mike 2005-09-14 17:05|| 2005-09-14 17:05|| Front Page Top

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