Treason In Plain Sight

Kinda gives new meaning to "... doth protest too much," doesn't it?

Now we know why KKKarl Rove pissed and moaned so much last week about Democrats. (Scroll down this page.)

MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case

By E&P Staff
Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET

NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name--and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove. LINK

I'd like nothing more than to watch KKKarl Rove frog marched out of the West`Wing in handcuffs. In fact, I have a bottle of bubbly chilling for the day...

Here is the transcript of O'Donnell's remarks:

"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.

"And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury."

And now page #1 of Ambassador Joe Wilson's book makes perfect sense and must have hung like a guillotine blade over KKKarl's pasty white neck all this time...

The truth was always out there.

But that's not the whole story.

Who Told Rove?

Of course, we've always known...

And Seymour Hersh told us a long time ago:

The intelligence report was quickly stovepiped to those officials who had an intense interest in building the case against Iraq, including Vice-President Dick Cheney. "“The Vice-President saw a piece of intelligence reporting that Niger was attempting to buy uranium,"” Cathie Martin, the spokeswoman for Cheney, told me. Sometime after he first saw it, Cheney brought it up at his regularly scheduled daily briefing from the C.I.A., Martin said. He asked the briefer a question. The briefer came back a day or two later and said, '"We do have a report, but there's a lack of details."’” The Vice-President was further told that it was known that Iraq had acquired uranium ore from Niger in the early nineteen-eighties but that that material had been placed in secure storage by the I.A.E.A., which was monitoring it. "End of story," Martin added. "That's all we know."” According to a former high-level C.I.A. official, however, Cheney was dissatisfied with the initial response, and asked the agency to review the matter once again. It was the beginning of what turned out to be a year-long tug-of-war between the C.I.A. and the Vice-President's office. LINK

OK, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for KKKarl Rove, Tricky Dick Cheney (and Cheney's flying monkey, Lewis "Scooter" Libby) to be tried for treason.

But they should be.

This country was founded on principles...

A concept apparently too complex for The Backside Of The Bell Curve to understand.

After all, if it doesn't affect them directly, it's just not important.

Case in point:

From a 17th-century epigram by John Harington...

"Treason doth never prosper:
what's the reason?

For if it prosper,
none dare call it treason."