Okay, other folks have been covering this nonsense, but it's starting to get interesting again, so I thought I'd jump in again...
There are two possibilities:
1) Karl Rove knowingly told a reporter that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent. In which case, he is a scumbag and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Or more likely...
2) Rove was asked by a reporter why Wilson was sent to Niger and Rove indicated tht his wife recommended him for the job. In which case, he did nothing wrong.
Dr. Rusty makes one point in his call for Bush to fire Rove worth mentioning and that is that this whole thing is a distraction from the War on Terror.
I never understood what exactly Rove was supposed to contribute as Deputy Chief of Staff...he's a political strategist and a pollster... The president already won re-election, so I don't really get why he's still around.
But if Rove didn't actually do anything wrong, there is no reason to fire him. Giving Democrats fuel to add to their fire will only impede the president's efforts on the War on Terror and I don't think that's the right play.
1:20PM Update
Somebody at Fox News didn't get the memo...check out this paragraph chock full of errors:Rove is on the hot seat after his lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed this weekend that in July 2003 Rove spoke to Time magazine's Matt Cooper about former Ambassador Joe Wilson's trip to Niger to investigate intelligence claims that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake uranium, used for making nuclear weapons, from that African nation. Wilson returned without such evidence, and subsequently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times criticizing the administration for manipulating intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq.Wilson actually did find evidence that Iraq had gone to Niger seeking uranium and had to testify as such to the Senate Committee on Intelligence:
The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.I move for the revocation of FNC's VRWC membership card.
