Dave johnson makes the point from John at AMERICAblog:
If a senior White House staffer had intentionally outed an American spy during World War II, he'd have been shot.
My only disagreement is that this appears to be a conspiracy by the members of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), not just Karl Rove. The WHIG task force was set up in August 2002 by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and chaired by Karl Rove to coordinate all the executive branch elements in the run-up to the war in Iraq. There is now no doubt that the members of the WHIG were attempting to fraudulently sell the invasion of Iraq to the American people and Congressand. They they considered Joe Wilson a danger to their confidence job. They started to attack Joe Wilson prior to his editorial in the New York Times exposing the falsity of the evidence on which President Bush's famous 16 words in the State of the Union Speech. It was their attack on Joe Wilson that led to the Plame Affair which Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald has been investigating for nearly two years now.
The WHIG included Karl Rove , Karen Hughes , Mary Matalin, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. We now know they were discussing Joe Wilson and how to silence him in the early Spring of 2003.
Imagine a similar cabal in the White House during WW II who were concerned about a diplomat married to an active OSS agent working to defeat the German. Now imagine that the cabal exposed that OSS agent, destroying her networks as the WHIG did to Valerie Plame.
They would have had a short trial for treason and a quick firing squad.
Yet the entire Republican Party has gathered to support Karl Rove and the others currently being investigated by the Special Prosecutor, Fitzgerald.
Yes, I am saying that the entire Republican Party as an organization is supporting and promoting treason.
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