Does America Care…

…that the President’s most senior advisors are responsible for blowing the cover of a CIA agent?

“As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated.”

“In October 2003, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that he personally asked Libby and Rove whether they were involved, “so I could come back to you and say they were not involved.” Asked if that was a categorical denial of their involvement, he said, “That is correct.”

Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Is Clearer
The Washington Post, 10/2/05

Any American who isn’t shocked by this has to look themselves in the mirror and admit they’ve drunk so deeply of the Bush kool-aid that they’re ready to scrap this democracy thing and appoint him our leader-for-life. Politics can be a dirty business, but these were the most senior White House aids blowing the cover of a CIA operative, and fellow American, for some petty political payback. What is the positive spin here? At best it’s un-American, at worst it’s criminal.

They’ll say they didn’t know. They’ll say they never said her name. They’ll squirm like the skillful snakes that they are. What will George do, fire them, or give them a medal?