Counterpoint: Forget Confidentiality, Out Rove

Counterpoint: Forget Confidentiality, Out Rove

By Bill Israel

07/06/05 'Editor & Publisher' - - In 99.9 percent of cases I know, journalists must not break the bonds of appropriate confidentiality, to protect their ability to report, and to defend the First Amendment. I've testified in court to that end, and would do so again.

But the Valerie Plame-CIA case that threatens jail time for reporters from Time and The New York Times this week is the exception that shatters the rule. In this case, journalists as a community have been played for patsies by the president's chief strategist, Karl Rove, and are enabling him to abuse the First Amendment, by their invoking it."

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Will Karl Rove be Indicted?

"Will Karl Rove Be Indicted?

By JOSHUA FRANK

Occasionally I get emails from Washington folks who work on the Hill claiming to possess juicy insider digs on our public servants and their corporate paymasters. I usually delete said emails, as I don't want to be responsible for propagating dirty rumors or false information that can't be corroborated. I'd rather let Judith Miller and the New York Times do that. Nonetheless, in the past 24 hours I have been contacted by three separate Congressional Democrats in Washington, and a Justice Department official, first by email and later phone, who all say the same thing: Karl Rove is about to be indicted."

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KARL ROVE IS WORSE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN

KARL ROVE: WORSE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN

By Ted Rall Tue Jul 5, 8:05 PM ET

NEW YORK--In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.

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Save the First Amendment--from Karl Rove

Save the First Amendment--from Karl Rove

Here's a man who taught with Rove, and considers him a friend, writes that in the Valerie Plame case, Rove is using journalists, and the First Amendment, 'to operate without constraint, or to camouflage breaking the law.' That's why neither reporters Cooper and Miller, nor their publications, should protect Rove (or anyone else) 'through an undiscerning, blanket use of the First Amendment that weakens its protections by its gross misuse.'

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More Dirty Tricks

It seems that thieves targeted the Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters this week, stealing a computer and a high-tech communications gadget belonging to party chairman Denny White. Posters celebrating John Glenn accomplishments still hung on the walls of the headquarters, a portable stereo sat on a desk, and a few Sony Vaio desktop computers with flat panel monitors remained untouched. Yet items belonging to Mr. White; a Dell computer valued at $800, a flat-screen monitor valued at $250, and a $250 BlackBerry communications device, were the only items stolen.

So this is the score. The thieves left several thousand dollars in laptops, items that are far easier to hide and transport, in favor of a middle of the road PC with a big old lunky monitor. Why the monitor you wonder? Because they were ordered to take a specific computer, and for someone used to taking orders, the monitor was part of the computer they were told to take. The implication here of course, is that this is a conspiracy. Someone else gave the order to steal a specific computer because if the person who wanted the stored information were the actual B&E artist as well, he would have taken only the CPU.

Yup. Rove, DeLay y, Roe, the Downing St. Memos, no WMD'ss, Halliburton's missing billions, and the hundreds of times that this administration has been proven to have lied, altered documents, suppressed or distorted scientific reports on the environment, global warming, on the economy, the war, the elections, the assets of administration members as they regard *overt* conflicts of interest (Cheney, perhaps the most vocal advocate of the Iraq debacle, has had his net worth skyrocket as a result of the war), the humiliated or fired career analysts, military commanders or even dirt poor farmers.....

Look. This administration is evil to it's very core. Nixon was a saint compared to these guys. And the thing that makes me so damn angry is that we knew this guy was rotten from the start. We tried to tell others, but instead of listening, we were branded as traitors and told bullshit like "we didn't support the troops". Hey! We support the troops by not supporting a president who puts them in danger only so that Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld et al can pursue their dream of an "American Century". So Dick Cheney can line his pockets while the Christian Right can bring about the "end-times" by supporting the Israeli extremists in their fight to destroy the muslims Dome Of The Rock. In their warped thinking, this will bring about the "end times"....a time where they think we (progressives) will all go to hell and they will be raptured up to heaven. Yes! They are that fucking nuts! They will bring about a nuclear war , believing that they alone are safe because they "believe".

No. Wake up. You are killing yourselves to make these bastards richer. They laugh at you behind your back of course) when you teach your children that it is their duty to grow up and work for them, to not ask questions about whether a war is justified if the president says it's so. They laugh and they laugh and they laugh......

Mycos