Yes, I'm annoyed. And I am afraid.

Jeff, back away from the pitchfork! Your hatred for President Bush came through loud and clear – but "emotions" don't qualify as evidence in courts these days. Just because you FEEL like putting someone in jail isn't justification. Sorry if that bursts your bubble.

How about you write your esteemed leaders (Pelosi and Reid) and ask THEM to take some action. Oh wait – Nancy has already conceded that impeachment is off the table.

Your next course of action – vote for Cindy Sheehan. Some how SHE thinks she can impeach President Bush, which is REALLY odd since the election she would be running in (against Nancy) is the one where President Bush's 2nd term ends.

Dogs chasing their tails!

Apparently the only two things you have read recently are the Pallast book and Obama's offerings.

Many of us who are independent thinkers would come to the conclusion that based on your postings, you are either an Obama operative or just plain brainwashed.

My suggestion: don't just read the things that reinforce how you already see the world. And don't buy into all the soundbites, talking points and other drivel from the "mainstream media" or the campaign staffs of the candidates. Look at things from all points of view and question everything.

Like you, I am extremely disappointed in the Bush presidency. The results have been horrible. If the electorate had been smarter, they would have nominated and elected someone with moderate views and lots of experience. Certainly Gore and McCain offered that in 2000.

Demonizing Rove doesn't change the fact that the whole Plame/Wilson fiasco never should have happened in the first place and that partisanship was the basis for his trip as well as for what happened subsequently. The simple truth is that the special prosecutor would have indicted Rove had there been any criminal wrongdoing on his part. Just because you don't like him for being Bush's "brain" or for his tactics in helping win elections, doesn't make him a criminal or a traitor.

Under Bush, we no longer have the rule of law. I wonder if we still have free elections.

All of this rhetoric is entertaining, but when will we, as the citizens of this nation, force something to be done about Bush and his band of mentally disturbed criminals?

Talk is cheap. When do we act?

Im just tired of this banter. Some people need to see some jail time, or better, be brought up on charges of treason.

Are you high? Valerie Plame went before Congress and said not only was her cover blown, but that perhaps hundreds of people were effected by the leak. The cover company she worked for had operatives all around the world, right in the thick of organizations. This was all totally ruined by this leak.

No law was broken? Many laws were broken. It was treason, plain and simple. I can't see the reason why charges haven't been brought on Rove and Cheney and Bush. These guys have broken so many laws its impossible to keep track of them all. They've trampled the constitution to the point almost of no return.

It's amazing how the OReiley/Limbaugh bots just spout the same crap, without actually looking into it themselves.

If you really, truly think Karl Rove and his ilk is so great, why don't you truly educate yourselves? Read a book called "Armed Madhouse" by Greg Pallast. He details out the REAL reasons the neo cons wanted to go into Iraq and why it's still so messed up there.

For example; Did you know that we're in Iraq not for WMD, not for democracy, not even to take the oil. We're there because Iraq has more oil than the Saudis and Saudi Arabia and certain factions of Bush's administration like the price of oil high. As long as Iraq's oil DOESN'T get out, the world market for oil remains stable and high. That's the bottom line. Keep the oil in Iraq suppressed and all the rich big oil men can keep making their big checks, Bush and Cheney and Rove included.

And what about what Rove has done to democracy in the country. Again, read "Armed Madhouse" by Greg Pallast, go to the library and get it. In New Mexico, Bush won the election by like 5,000 votes. Five times that many votes in Democratic precincts only where thrown out. In primarily Hispanic areas, 3 out of every ten voters that drove an hour to get to out of the way polls voted NONE OF THE ABOVE according to electronic machines. But in white districts, they had more votes for Bush than they had registered voters. Go figure.

Then, of course, there's Karl Rove's missing emails, which happened into Pallast's hands. They're caging lists, to all the RNC big wigs. They used first class letters to send out to soldiers homes that they knew were in Iraq, to primarily minority neighborhoods. Any letter that came back returned, they challenged the vote, to the tune of many, many thousands in a race run by mere votes.

It is more important now more than ever that Rove and his bunch be watched and hopefully prosecuted. It's vital that everyone learn the issues, learn the way they are commiting fraud, and show up at the voting booths. Pay attention, and most of all vote.

If you say your vote doesn't matter, you're doing exactly what Rove wants. You can bet he'll be working for whatever Republican candidate gets the nod.

Pay attention. Read "Armed Madhouse." Then tell me how great Karl Rove is.

Oh and by the way, he's no hack. He's a highly respected BBC reporter from America. His report on the caging lists they got from Rove was the highest rated BBC show all around the globe. Highest ratings in every developed country two weeks before the 04 election.

Did we watch it here? Nope. The media didn't play the report.

Go figure.

I suggest that rather than being lazy and accepting soundbites and parroting half truths, you actually do some research on this subject to find out what the facts are. Certainly, Karl Rove is an easy target, but the fact is neither he nor Libby were the source of "the leak." Richard Armitage fessed up to that several months back.

Plame did not fit the CIA's own definition of an active covert agent and thus there was no technical breach of the law by revealing her "identity". That is why Armitage and Novak did not go to jail and that is why the lawsuit was dismissed.

This is all about Dems vs. Repubs and it's nothing more than a pissing contest. All this talk of "treason" is just a lot of flapping lips. Rove's semantics of "I've heard that, too" remind me of Bill's "it depends on your definition of sex" testimony.

Neither party has a monopoly on shortcomings of character. Surely we can all accept the failed presidency of Bush 43 for what it is...bad judgement and stubborness masquerading as resolve. But we have to put it behind us and move forward.

Because he was/is a specialist on the middle east and Africa. He worked for Bush senior as a diplomat in both locations. He was an ambassador to Iraq and he had connections in Africa.
Why is the British intelligence findings about yellow cake uranium igorned in favor of Wilson's conclusions?

Since when do we take the word or another country over the word of our own officials? Wilson had years of experience under many administrations dealing with both Iraq and Africa.

How is it that a "covert" CIA agent's neighbors know where she worked for years?
None of her neighbors knew what she did other than she worked for the government. They were all shocked to find out she was a CIA agent.

Rather than asking questions that have been answered before, get off your butt and read something besides right-wing talking points. You won't look so ignorant.

Bottom line: Wilson and Plame schemed this whole thing from day one. Wilson has a political agenda and so does Plame. Armitage "leaks" but Libby gets charged. In the meantime, Wilson and Plame get a free pass even though they conspired to to manipulate national intelligence to their political favor.

Posted By Steve, Crete IL : August 20, 2007 1:08 pm

For those who say Pame or her husband were political hacks: Both these people spent their lives in public service. The likes of Rove and Bush will come and go, the real hope for this country is those who dedicate their lives to working for our government, no matter who is in office.

Among other things, "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."

So much for sending Rove to jail over that. It sounds like Wilson is the liar in this case.

Rove has left the White House, true enough, but I'm not so sure about him being irrelevant. He is still relevant enough to really piss off the democrats.

and novak reports news...no matter the source, no matter the subject. a reporter is supposed to be unbiased, which i'm assuming novak is or he would've told who his sources were to beginwith.

so all this talk about wilson and novak getting prosecuted is the last straw you naysayers have to grasp at i suppose. it's very sad actually.

Why does everyone want to blame Rove for outing Valerie Plame when it has been documented Richard Armitage was the leak?

Bob Woodword (Washington Post) says it was Armitage.
Robert Novak says it was Armitage.
Even Richard Armitage admits it publically that HE was the source (Sept 7, 2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage

"By the way, it was the complete failure within the CIA that allowed the UN conflict to progress into war. But it happened.., so get over it already and help for a change."

No, it was a forgone conclusion orchestrated by the PNAC think-tank years before 9/11:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnac

And the Democrats continue to get pummeled by Bush sympathizers for believing their lies leading up to the Iraq war. And get over what: an unjust war this, "our," government pursued? I choose not to "get over it."

Pretty difficult to do that when the Clinton administration hacked budgets down so far as to make the CIA's human intelligence program nearly irrelevant.

The defense budget was an easy target for the handout-smitten liberals.

Good job!

That being said, it is an act of high treason to reveal the identity of a spy, especially in time of war. During WWII, anyone in the field that might have done this was subject to an impromptu Court Martial and summarily hung upon a guilty verdict. THAT is how we kept intelligence out of the hands of our enemies.

One more comment. You, people, do not understand to even a slightest degree how a vicious dictator like Saddam Hussein (his role model was Josef Stalin, right?) can keep everyone silent in his own country... If he did not have WMD's, then why he did not say it out loud and stay alive?
And if those "friendly countries" like France, Germany, Russia supported the US and UK, this war would have never started!

Amazing!

Good one, this one had me laughing out loud!!! Me thinks that the man doth protest too much!! He probably bought a Barbie doll which he dresses in Hillary like pant suits to fulfill some sick fantasy.

Seriously, Rove has polluted the civil discourse long enough. I only wish that it was true that he's going to TX to be with his family. The sad truth is that he's probably already planning to work behind the scenes to try to topple the Democratic candidate and he thinks that candidate will be Hillary Clinton.

For what??? For disagreeing with the President??? When that becomes a crime, I'm leaving.

Also, I have to say I'm amazed at how misinformed many people here are. Valerie Plame a "third rate political hack"? Why Novak outed Plame? Wilson lying or out for revenge?

Do you people actually READ the articles on CNN?