History’s Greatest Monster (Bracket 11)

I must admit I haven’t been following this very closely, and I am fairly unfamiliar with your system of law, but as I understand it, it is a legal offense to blow the cover a CIA agent.

In that case why isn’t he arrested? Is the evidence just not strong enough?

It would be a shame to lose Rove ! He could be such a wonderful symbol. Nobody reads “The Rime of the ANcient Mariner” anymore, and we so need a new meme for “Albatross”

Anthony, the US at this point is not a one-party state, but it is getting closer. We are just far enough from being a one-party state that this crime, which of necessity involved the press having knowledge of it, is investigatable. Prosecution is still not certain. And as it is now, the GOP prosecutor investigating this case has probably destroyed any chance of a GOP political career. The GOP was probably hoping that he’d investigate, quietly and fruitlessly, until things cooled down.

One other thing to consider – it’s clear by now that 6 journalists knew that Rove committeda felony involving national security, but kept it quiet until after the election. Which is sorta strange, if the media actually *was* liberal.

Wow, I never knew that Kennedy was aware there was no missile gap and campaigned on it anyway. What’s up with that?

You lefties enjoy your moment of glee, then get down to the business of being a true opposition party instead of name-callers and obstructionists.

Exhibit A of what’s gone terribly, terribly awry in American political life. People like this [and there are lots and lots of them] view the betrayal of an American agent during wartime as political gamesmanship rather than disgraceful misconduct that impacts legitimate security interests, as well as the personal interests of the people connected to the agent. For guys like this, it’s all about the party. National security means nothing. Lives and careers destroyed mean nothing. A phony war based on false pretenses means nothing.

Ugh.

“In trying to subvert the McGovern campaign he tried to undermine the the foundations of democratic contest.”

Rove’s never, done, that, no. Apart from in pretty much every single campaign he’s ever run, of course.

Drum’s dubious point is that Nixon may have let Kennedy score a dubious point against the administration in which he served for the sake of preserving the secrecy of its intelligence-gathering efforts.

Too many seemed to learn the lesson that the only punishable sin is underestimating the capabilities of any remotely plausible enemy, and the legacies of this credulity include the Star Wars boondoggle (Strategic Missile Defense) and our latest little imbroglio in Iraq.

Set next to the daily news from the middle east, the latest stuff from the front lines of exotic defence technologies, only reported in the technical press, is positively anodyne.

I only wish we were spending as much on space exploration or perhaps more parochial concerns, like humans.

the US at this point is not a one-party state, but it is getting closer. We are just far enough from being a one-party state that this crime, which of necessity involved the press having knowledge of it, is investigatable.

It sounds like you are actually starting to believe your own hyperbole.

Maybe you should visit a real one-party state for a reality check.

Rope-a-dope, that’s what wilyl Karl is doing here, clever Karl, clean Karl parroting what nasty journalists told him about covert Val, outed so long ago in Lebanon, stuck at an Admin desk, her bloody covert knife sheathed, no longer able to parachute behind enemy lines to slit the throats of our enemies, dreaming of yellow cake in exotic lands, itching to wear the cloak and bear the dagger again in service to our glorious nation but left with vicarious thrills via the enigmatic Mr. Wilson.