Okay, I am a big fan of TPM anyway, but the latest post from Josh Marshall nails the Rove scandal. You should read the whole thing, but key excerpts:
No presidential advisor should ever disclose the identity of a covert agent at the CIA. That doesn't require elaboration.The GOPers are trying to smear, bad mouth and change the subject. But the bottom line is what Josh outlines above. The GOP has no answer to that, as Josh points out. And, the White House has never come clean about this scandal. They've lied. And, now, it's coming back to haunt them.
If it's done knowingly, it's a felony. Joe Wilson could be the biggest hack in the world. Plame could have cooked the whole trip idea up to damage the president -- as some GOP loopsters are now claiming -- and it wouldn't matter.
Rove did something obviously wrong and reckless. And they probably broke several laws by the time it was all done.
Pretty much every Republican in Washington today works for Karl Rove. So they can't deal with that fact. But fact it is.
And nothing was done amiss? If Rove et al. didn't do anything wrong, why have they spent two years lying about what they did? No law was broken? Then what is Fitzgerald looking at? Why is a grand jury investigating Rove? A prosecutor like Fitzgerald, a Republican appointee, wouldn't be throwing journalists in jail unless he thought he was investigating a serious crime.
