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July 2, 2005
Did Karl Rove author the Yellowcake Forgeries?
Now that Karl Rove has been fingered as the source of the leak that exposed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA mole, one has to wonder why he did it.
ALthough it's true that her miscreant husband Joe Wilson wrote a scandalous column claiming that the U.S. had rushed to war with Iraq on questionable evidence, that's hardly anything new.
No one expects an uber-liberal rag like the New York Times to be objective. It isn't in their nature. Their goal is to tarnish the Bush presidency, by any means necessary.
So why would Rove reach into his bag of tricks and decide to out Valerie Plume as an undercover CIA mole? Why risk that over some limpid, pellucid article by a washed-up has-been former low-level bureaucrat like Joe Wilson?
My guess is that it comes back to the comments surrounding the "memorandum" that Joe Wilson said he never saw. This memorandum has subsequently been widely discredited, and has come to be known as the "Yellowcake Forgery". Could the Yellowcake Forgery turn out to be the work of political mastermind Karl Rove? Stay tuned. My guess is that the heat is about to get turned up on this one.
Rove, after all, is potentially facing some pretty serious charges. He might be chared under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 or, he may face perjury for his testimony before a federal grand jury in October of 2004.
They say that 'what goes around, comes around', and Karl may be in the sights of some pretty vicious Karma. After all, who says you can't have your Yellowcake and eat it too?
Posted by Peenie Wallie on July 2, 2005 at 1:28 PM
Comments
Except for the fact that Rove has not been identified as the source, and in fact has been all but cleared of that accusation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. The only reason this rumor is in the news at all is because Larry O'Donnell, whose opinion about these sorts of things is not left to one's imagination, saw Rove's name among a list of other background sources in Cooper's notebook.
The story is in this morning's Post, page A7.
Posted by: Jeff Harrell on July 3, 2005 at 8:39 AM
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