Boston Globe Editorial: Show Karl the Ax

Boston Globe Editorial:

IT'S TIME for President Bush to take Karl Rove to the woodshed and show him the ax. And if Bush doesn't get better answers than the public has, he should use the ax....

What we have here is a failure of leadership from Bush. Collapse might be a better word. Bush should have acted immediately after the issue surfaced in July 2003, when Valerie Plame was identified, first by columnist Robert Novak, as a CIA agent....

Novak identified his sources as ''senior administration officials." President Bush should have demanded immediately that the leaker reveal himself and leave the White House staff. Instead there has been a long series of defenses and obfuscations, and now stonewalling.