Rove Should Be Fired, Spy's Husband Says

[aimee]

SamCA:

What do you mean?

Let’s be blunt about this. The information Wilson revealed was not a national secret, and it was not a crime to release it. The information Rove released – and there’s no question that he released it at this point – was specifically illegal. According to George Bush Sr., it was treason. Trying to equate the two seems like little more than a desperate attempt to avoid admitting the Bush administration could possibly have done anything wrong.

But let’s say for the sake of argument that you’re right, and what Wilson did was just as bad. Does that make it OK for the White House to turn around and answer his supposed crime with another?

Based on Fitzgerald’s past performance, I’m really looking forward to it.

From today’s Washington Post:

There was no crime…
doesn’t matter…what either of us think…we will still have to wait to see how it plays out

 

[MJE]

Mr Wilson’s wife is not/was not a spy. She’s an analyst.

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

MJE:

Mr Wilson’s wife is not/was not a spy. She’s an analyst.

She was not even working with the CIA at the time the “leak” was made… I do not understand all of this, in our democracy which guarantees us a freedom of the press, how is it that a judge was able to pressure some reporter into breaking and giving up her source? I think that Fitzgerald nailed Libby on five charges because he couldn’t get him down on one, and was hoping that at least one of those five would stick…

 

[SamCA]

Semper Fi:

She was not even working with the CIA at the time the “leak” was made…

Yes she was. Although she had a desk job, that desk job was at a company which was secretly owned by the CIA, and when her cover was blown, it blew the cover of her company too.

More to the point, the very people who leaked her name got it off of a memo from the CIA which specifically marked Plame’s identity as Top Secret and forbade releasing the information.

I do not understand all of this, in our democracy which guarantees us a freedom of the press, how is it that a judge was able to pressure some reporter into breaking and giving up her source?

When the actions of the source were criminal, of course. Reporters aren’t lawyers or doctors – they don’t have special confidentiality priveleges, especially where crime is concerned.

I think that Fitzgerald nailed Libby on five charges because he couldn’t get him down on one, and was hoping that at least one of those five would stick…

You’re probably right that he couldn’t actually make the original leak charges stick – but that’s because White House officials kept obstructing his investigation. As he put it, if an umpire’s trying to call a play and one of the players throws sand in his eyes, he’s not going to be able to make the right call, which is why you punish the guy who threw the sand.