KARL ROVE Shows Osama: Bush Can’t Keep Word [w/ cartoon]

President Bush promised to fire whomever outted CIA operative Valerie Plame Bush. Karl Rove has been exposed as that person and Bush refuses to fire him. How good is Bush’s word to Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il (N. Korea), Hu Jintao (China) — or the American people?

Bush said on February 10, 2004: "There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there’s leaks out of my administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of."

It is important for Bush not to obviously repudiate his words and spoken commitments. Otherwise, he will have no credibility with terrorists and world leaders. Anything our armed forces do to keep the nation’s word and create credibility for our foreign policy will be in vain if the president repudiates his promises. Before he appoints someone to interpret the law on the Supreme Court bench, he should start executing the law (I don’t mean killing it, either).

No, George, "taken care of" shouldn’t mean sending Rove home to work for you, as you once did Karen Hughes.

"We will stay the course." Hu says? I mean, who? George Bush? Why believe him? Hu lies. I mean he (Bush) lies. He lies about the obvious. He does not keep his word. His word — the Bush Administration’s word — is no good unless President Bush fires Karl Rove instead of waiting, and hoping against hope, that Rove is not convicted of violating the Intelligence Identity Protections Act of 1982 or the Espionage Act of 1917. (1917, yes, and the Constitution has been in effect since 1789.)

Bush won’t give him his pink slip, but YOU CAN: Click here to send Karl Rove his pink slip along with some words of your own http://votelouise.com/page/petition/rove .

WHAT THE ESPIONAGE ACT SAYS:

"Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it...Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

THE SKINNY ON KARL ROVE’S OUTTING OF VALERIE PLAME

About three months after the start of the Iraq War, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame Wilson’s husband, published a column in the New York Times on July 6, 2003, recounting his 2002 trip to Niger as a CIA consultant precisely to investigate intelligence reports that Iraq had tried to buy a large quantity of yellowcake from the country.

Despite his findings to the contrary, the allegation that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" made its way into Bush’s infamous State of the Union address in January 2003, less than two months before the invasion. [NOTE: Words of Bush are always placed in boldface type, as they usually are bold-faced lies.] This speech and Colin Powell’s show-and-tell buffoonery at the UN lied the US into the Iraq Quagmire.

On July 14, 2003, 10 days after Wilson’s exposure of the SoU speech lie, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reported that Wilson had traveled to Niger at the suggestion of his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, whom Novak not only identified by name, but also described as "an Agency [CIA] operative on weapons of mass destruction." He cited "two senior administration officials" as his sources.

COVERUP/TREASONGATE

After the ensuing public uproar, Ashcroft’s Justice Department appointed US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate violations of the Intelligence Identities Act in connection with Novak’s outting of Plame. Ever since, a grand jury empanelled by Fitzgerald has been taking testimony from administration officials, including Rove, and the administration has been in the coverup mode.

FAST FORWARD TO NOW — STILL COVERING UP (Is this a good example for spreading democracy?)

New York Times reporter Judith Miller — a favorite conduit of the Bush Administration — is in jail for refusing to reveal the sources who outted Plame to her and tried to peddle a story to her accusing the Wilsons of nepotism (Wilson’s wife, a CIA officer, recommended him for the Niger gig). The trade magazine of the US press says that one of the sources may be Miller herself.

According to one email message obtained last week by Newsweek, Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper informed his editor that Rove had told him four days before the Novak column was published that Wilson’s wife — whom he did not identify by name — "apparently works" for the CIA and had a role in selecting him for the Niger mission. Rove — an "officer of the United States" with a security clearance (still!) and "lawful access" to this information — was attempting to peddle it to various news media, apparently to discredit Joe Wilson for exposing Bush’s lie about Nigerian uranium.

Rove’s lawyer has since confirmed that such a conversation took place but insisted that his client had not done anything illegal, both because Rove did not provide Plame’s name, nor was he aware that she was a covert officer.

The lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, a partner in the law firm Patton Boggs in Washington, DC, would have us believe that Novak, a leading investigative reporter in Washington, could not put "Mrs. Joseph Wilson" and "Valerie Wilson" and "CIA" and "Valerie Plame" together and come up with 4: Novak’s writing that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction." Sir, quit insulting Mr. Novak’s intelligence — and ours.

BUSH’S UNKEPT PROMISE TO ON KARL ROVE

By now it is obvious that the long-standing rumors that Rove was the source of Plame’s outing have been confirmed by reporters backed up by their notes and documentation.

"There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there’s leaks out of my administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of" Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. That was on Tuesday, February 10, 2004. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/wilson.cia/

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING — AND WAITING!