Daily Brushback: Blow the Hatch
Today’s question is for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT.
LP: Senator, in 1998 you insisted (in ways that caused us to wonder how you could keep a straight face) that Kenneth Starr’s GOP-backed witch-hunt over President Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky had nothing at all to do with partisan politics or sexual morality, but that it was purely about perjury, saying that “[p]erjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice are all high crimes and misdemeanors.” For the record, we’ve now decided to agree with you.
While we’re far from anything like conclusive evidence yet, it begins to look as though White House puppetmaster Karl Rove might be implicated in the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent in retailiation for her husband’s criticism of the Bush Administration’s yellow-cake uranium claims. Since we know that you’re a man of integrity, and certainly are above cheap partisan hypocrisy, can we trust you to stand beside us in calling for a full and aggressive Starr-like investigation into the Bush administration’s potential involvement in the Plame case, which since it involves not just perjury, but treason, is an order of magnitude more serious than a presidential blow-job?
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sources
from your link:
Rove, who is President George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff, was named as a source by two lawyers involved in the case who asked not to be identified, Newsweek said.
If the “two lawyers” continue to “not be identified” this will go nowhere. If they DO have something, they should come out with it and Rove should be put away. Putting an individual agent in danger for political gain is dispicable, what outting an agent does for national security is, indeed, treason.
Happy 4th, Sam
sources
from your link:
Rove, who is President George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff, was named as a source by two lawyers involved in the case who asked not to be identified, Newsweek said.
If the “two lawyers” continue to “not be identified” this will go nowhere. If they DO have something, they should come out with it and Rove should be put away. Putting an individual agent in danger for political gain is dispicable, what outting an agent does for national security is, indeed, treason.
Happy 4th, Sam