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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:13 PM
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Great Treasongate article on Yahoo - Ted Rall
Tells it like it is:

"NEW YORK--"Karl Rove is loyal to President Bush," a correspondent wrote as Treasongate broke. "Isn't that a form of patriotism?" Not in a representative democracy, I replied. Only in a dictatorship is fealty to the Leader equal to loyalty to the nation. We're Bush's boss. He works for us. Unless that changed on 9/11 (or 12/20/00). Rove had no right to give away state secrets, even to protect Bush.

Newly loquacious Time reporter Matt Cooper has deflated half a dozen Rove-defending talking points since we last visited. Republicans, for instance, have argued that Rove had merely confirmed what Cooper already knew: that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. That claim evaporated in Cooper's piece in the magazine's July 25 issue: "This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife."

"I've already said too much," Cooper quotes Rove as he ended their 2003 conversation.

Rove may avoid prosecution under the Intelligence Identities and Protection Act, says John Dean, counsel at the Nixon White House. "There is, however, evidence suggesting that other laws were violated," he says, alluding to Title 18, Section 641 of the U.S. Code. The "leak of sensitive information" for personal purposes--say, outting the CIA wife of your boss' enemy--is "a very serious crime," according to the judge presiding over a similar recent case. If convicted under the anti-leak statute, Rove would face ten years in a federal prison."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050718/cm_ucru/republicansmustchoosebushoramerica/nc:742
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:15 PM
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1. Wonder if W would pardon him on 1-19-09 should Rove ever be convicted?
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:26 PM
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2. He'll Pardon Everybody, Including Himself
I don't expect Bush, Cheney, Rove or anyone who matters in the regime
to be brought to justice in any US Court.

They will, however, eventually be invited here:


Those presenting the invitation may be very persuasive:


They will get to meet these people:


and stay in these accomodations:


They should all be prepared for a long stay, because the UN doesn't take pResidential Pardons.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 04:36 PM
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3. "Newly loquacious" -- LOL!!
And the more loquacious he gets, the less loquacious the White House gets! :rofl:
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