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Originally Posted by smooth
Do you take the hypothetical of whether this would be news and conclude that it should not be news?
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I'm not saying it shouldn't be news. Nothing should be covered up.
Why this is about Rove:
"At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words."
-Joe Wilson (Plame's husband, and former US ambassador to Baghdad)
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"In Washington, so-called leak investigations—formal inquiries by the Justice Department into the publication of classified information—are like endless replays of the movie “Casablanca”: the authorities round up the usual suspects, nothing much happens, and life goes on.
Without leaks, arguably, the U.S. government could not function. Trial balloons could not be floated, political scores could not be settled, wrongs would go unexposed, policy could not be made. It is against the law to reveal government secrets that might harm national security, but as a practical matter, journalists (protected by the First Amendment) are very rarely pressed to reveal their sources. Leak investigations are launched about every other week in Washington, but only occasionally is the leaker caught, and it has been two decades since anyone was criminally punished."
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