Saturday, September 27, 2003

Bush’s Watergate? When Richard Nixon authorized the crime of breaking and entering into the Democratic committee offices in Watergate, he was riding high in the opinion polls, and faced a relatively weak opponent.  It was Nixon’s hubris, the belief that laws didn’t apply to him in terms of political power, that ultimately brought him down, once his lawbreaking scheme was uncovered.   But it took relentless pursuit of the lawbreaking before it finally rose to the level of an official and public scandal.   Today, we have the first indication of Bush’s Watergate.  It appears that Karl Rove has committed a felony in the Whitehouse, and the CIA has asked the Justice Dept. to investigate.     The Felony was Rove’s telling Robert Novack that Valerie Plame, the wife of U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a CIA operative.  This was in political retaliation for the report and article written by her husband, Wilson, explaining his trip to Niger and how the reports of Iraqi attempts to acquire Niger uranium were discredited a year before Bush used that pretext to go to war.   Now, we have a situation where Ashcroft’s Justice Dept. is being asked to investigate a felony by Karl Rove.  This will go nowhere unless the newly empowered democrats pick it up, and hold hearings, force the press to cover it, and in general exercise some oversight with Ashcroft.   Ultimately, it will lead to the impeachment or defeat of Bush, who now has a documented case of his chief political advisor committing a felony to smear those who have said he was lying about Iraq.   Kos is asking the press to pick up on this.  I suggest that it get reported all over the blogs until the mainstream press is embarrassed into actually pursuing a story that is not fed them by their right wing masters. 4:51:29 PM   comment []

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