{"id":174,"date":"2005-07-14T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=174"},"modified":"2005-07-15T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T02:23:56","slug":"karl-rove-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove, Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hile I hate to be too much involved into American politics, I find the comments in defense of Rove hilarious. For example, Fox’s news anchor John Gibson claimed<\/a> the following (on why Rove should get a medal):\n<\/p>\n

  Why should she have been outed? Well, despite her husband’s repeated denials, even in the face of a pile of evidence and conclusions from a joint investigation of Congress, it appears all evidence points to Joe Wilson’s wife, spy Valerie Plame, as the one who recommended<\/em> him for the job of going to Niger to discover if Saddam was trying to buy nuke bomb materials.\n<\/p>\n

So, if your boss asks you who he should hire to do some work, don’t recommend anybody: I mean, you’ll be blamed for this. After all, it was you (sic) who hired him, not your boss. The logic. (Remember: Plame didn’t hire her husband)\n<\/p>\n

Then there is the editorial that comes from the WSJ, our daily source for comedy it appears after reading its title alone: ‘Karl Rove. Whistleblower’<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

   For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real “whistleblower” in this whole sorry pseudo-scandal. He’s the one who warned Time’s Matthew Cooper and other reporters to be wary of Mr. Wilson’s credibility.\n<\/p>\n

I mean, my definition of whistleblower comes close to the one provided by MW Law Edition which says that a whistleblower<\/a> is “an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency and who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies for retaliation”. Home assignment: define “wrongdoing” in Wilson’s case.\n<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the GOP’s Talking points<\/a> (as found by Raw Story) (analyzed, courtesy of The Left Coaster<\/a>). There are so many items in that memo conservative party hacks can talk about but they all disguise the single fact that somebody broke the law. Once again: somebody broke the law<\/em>. Simple and clear. You break the law, you get punished.\n<\/p>\n

(The GOP’s talking points memo reminds me of arguments between kids where one of them states a fact and the other one tries to discredit the person<\/em> instead of talking about the fact itself. I was quilty of that too).\n<\/p>\n

Update (07\/15)<\/em>: In another twist to the story: It’s Karl Rove, Whistleblower for Novak!<\/a>
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Update (07\/15)<\/em>: Speculation over at DailyKos<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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