Send Karl Rove to Jail

From the towers of Manhattan to the levees of New Orleans--let justice be done! When politicians commit crimes and their lawyers encourage it, the people must uphold the rule of law. For the children to know that we knew right from wrong, and were compelled to act, please...each one, tell as many as you can. Most important, sign the message to the House Judiciary Committee. They will act if we tell them to.
Send Karl Rove to Jail


Click on any link below for more background in previous posts, such as Donald Siegelman or Valerie Plame.

Bush Gets Bashed by Former Mouthpiece

I believe this is a story about chickens not roosting but covering their butts. Let the subpoenas begin!
'Politico': Scott McClellan Hits White House in New Book
By Greg Mitchell
Published: May 27, 2008 7:40 PM ET Wednesday
NEW YORK Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is re-emerging, at least, with a memoir due out next week, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95).
Mike Allen, with a preview copy, calls it, at Politico.com, a "surprisingly scathing memoir." He reveals: "A few reporters were offered advance copies of the book, with the restriction that their stories not appear until Sunday, the day before the official publication date. Politico declined and purchased 'What Happened' at a Washington bookstore."
[...] Here is a sampling of the "explosive revelations" as described by Allen. (You might say that President Bush doesn't get off Scott-free.) The entire preview is at www.politico.com.
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war. McClellan repeatedly embraces the rhetoric of Bush's liberal critics and even charges: “If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
* [A]fter Hurricane Katrina, the White House “spent most of the first week in a state of denial,” and he blames Rove for suggesting the photo of the president comfortably observing the disaster during an Air Force One flyover. McClellan says he and counselor to the president Dan Bartlett had opposed the idea and thought it had been scrapped.
*E&P Editor Greg Mitchell's new book is So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq.
Don't worry, Mom. I'm clean!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808615

Bush Knew and Punished Plame

I am very glad that this story will not go away and will hope it will serve as the Pandora's box for BushCo. Scooter, Novack, Cheney, all those criminals deserve a serious dose of justice. But it won't do justice to this well written article to try and summarize it, so please go to the source and read the full article:
Lost E-Mails Obscure 'Plame-gate'
By Jason Leopold, May 9, 2008
Earlier this week, the White House disclosed that it could not recover lost e-mails from emergency backup tapes for the period covering the invasion of Iraq and the U.S. failure to find Iraq’s alleged WMD.
This new gap – from March 1, 2003, to May 23, 2003 – also may have wiped out evidence of how George W. Bush and his top aides reacted to the emerging criticism from former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson that the White House had sold the war using false claims about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger in Africa. [my bold]
“It seems clear now that the e-mail backups are spotty and that there is no guarantee that there are backup tapes for all of [Executive Office of the President] during the period of concern, March 2003-October 2005,” said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of George Washington University’s National Security Archive, one of two organizations suing the White House in hopes of forcing the administration to preserve its e-mails.
“There are no tapes from earlier than May 23, 2003,” Fuchs added, referring to an apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act. “So, anything deleted from the EOP network prior to May 23, 2003 (particularly between March 2003 and May 23, 2003) is missing from the backup tapes.” [...]
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/050908a.html
So is Daddy Bush, ol' 41 gonna speak about the traitor who outed a secure operative? Traitor off the old block, perhaps?

Bang! You’ve Been Plamed

When you play with the bad guys you should expect to get screwed. I’m talking about BushCo, of course, not Al-CIAduh.
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts
By Joby Warrick , Washington Post Staff Writer, October 9, 2007
...within minutes of Katz's e-mail to the White House, government-registered computers began downloading the video from SITE's server, according to a log of file transfers. The records show dozens of downloads over the next three hours from computers with addresses registered to defense and intelligence agencies.
By midafternoon, several television news networks reported obtaining copies of the transcript. A copy posted around 3 p.m. on Fox News's Web site referred to SITE and included page markers identical to those used by the group. "This confirms that the U.S. government was responsible for the leak of this document," Katz wrote in an e-mail to Leiter at 5 p.m.

Cover Blown Girl

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801817.html?nav=rss_nation