WHAT CRIME DID KARL ROVE COMMIT?

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WHAT CRIME DID KARL ROVE COMMIT?


[+] serious ballot by Corrupt
created Wed Jul 13, 05

Once again the isane left is beating it's chest and pointing it's finger at the White House.This week the mad dog liberals are claiming that Karl Rove,the master mind behind both of Bush's presidential campaignes, is responsible for outing a covert C.I.A agent.Rove is accussed of break a law established by Bush 41 in 1982.The law states that if an individual who has AUTHORIZED ACCESS to information about the identity of covert agents, outs those agents,then that person can be fined or arrest for up to 4 years in prison.The important thing to note about this law is that it can only apply to people who have AUTHORIZED ACCESS to imformation about C.I.A agents.Karl Rove did not and does not have AUTHORIZED ACCESS and therefore did not commit a crime.In other words if your brother was a covert agent and you told your girlfriend that brother was a covert agent,you could not be arrested for outing a C.I.A agent because you did not have authorized accessed to confidential info.What do you think?

Outing a C.I.A agent
He has committed no crime
Press wouldn't lie It's a crime!
Treason!
Being born?


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COMMENTS:
Rove is accused of giving this information to the press, intentionally, to punish Plame's husband by destroying his wife's CIA career.

As the to the hair-splitting and nit-picking by the Rove apologists, all that should be decided in a court of law. And Rove certainly should be indicted.

At the very least, Rove should be fired. If not because he is absolute scum of the earth, then because George W. Bush pledged to the American people that he would fire anyone in his Administration who leaked such information. Let Bush live up to his word--for once.
by cranky on Wed Jul 13, 05 11:23am [+]

Like the guys on the left that cranky supports!
by everygirl on Wed Jul 13, 05 11:24am [+]

Nice comeback, Miss Sabotage.
by cranky on Wed Jul 13, 05 11:33am [+]

And you [italicize:dared] to be outraged at ["It depends on what the definition of *is* is?!?!"

Shameless. Just shameless.
by Cathexis on Wed Jul 13, 05 12:57pm [+]

Well since he hurt the CIA by uncovering one of their agents for the sole purpose of malice then it can quite easily be said that he committed treason.
by RobinGaylord on Wed Jul 13, 05 2:27pm [+]

Here goes MS Sabotage, changing the subject. While he may "technically" get away with it, what he did was certainly unethical.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed Jul 13, 05 4:06pm [+]

Only through the legal definition of the crimes stated has he done nothing wrong. What he did may not have endangered Valerie Plame's life and work but, at this moment, anyone she ever associated with during her husband's posting as an ambassador is now under suspicion of being a CIA informant, even if they did nothing more than have lunch with her once a week. In a few years, I'd love to see a list of her associates, casual and otherwise, and whether they're alive or not. Anyone innocent who suffered even a little by this has Rove to thank. And, if you think he's a choir boy, I'd advise you to google his life history. He's been pulling dirty works for a long time. This was just a drop in the bucket.
by Truthseeker013 on Wed Jul 13, 05 5:32pm [+]

same reason why clinton shouldn't have been impeached, from what I understand he didn't put it in.
by LCD on Wed Jul 13, 05 6:44pm [+]

^ hee hee! ^
by mojo on Thu Jul 14, 05 8:59am [+]

BTW, Corrupt, your gymnastics with semantics did get me motivated to do some research.

It seems that even if Rove is able to weasel out of being convicted on the 1982 statute that makes it a crime for people with authorized access to classified information to knowingly identify covert agents (on technicalities), he is still in deep trouble.
by Cathexis on Mon Jul 18, 05 1:03pm [+]

It seems that you (and those seeking to rationalize anything and everything Rove does) have overlooked the duties assigned to individuals, like Karl Rove, who receive national security clearance.

Administration officials who are given the national security clearance to receive classified information are required to sign the "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement," also known as the SF 312.
by Cathexis on Mon Jul 18, 05 1:05pm [+]

The SF 312 Briefing Booklet helps answer questions about the practices and procedures that should be followed by individuals given top national security clearance.

Here's what question #19 in that booklet says:

Q19: If information that a signer of the SF 312 knows to have been classified appears in a public source, for example, in a newspaper article, may the signer assume that the information has been declassified and disseminate it elsewhere?

Answer: No. Information remains classified until it has been officially declassified. Its disclosure in a public source does not declassify the information. Of course, merely quoting the public source in the abstract is not a second unauthorized disclosure. However, before disseminating the information elsewhere or confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, further dissemination of the information or confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure.
by Cathexis on Mon Jul 18, 05 1:06pm [+]

I believe that breaking that rule constitutes a criminal act *and* forever disqualifies him from holding a Security Clearance.

Thus making his termination or resignation required.

HTH.
by Cathexis on Mon Jul 18, 05 1:07pm [+]

PS: He did break the 1982 statute, as well, your Johnny Cochrane semantics, notwithstanding.
by Cathexis on Mon Jul 18, 05 1:08pm [+]

He outed a CIA agent. If a democrat did that you neocons and especially fox news would be all over him.
by seon on Fri Oct 07, 05 11:45pm [+]






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