there will be a quiz afterward
Think Progress offers this painfully detailed list of all 21 of the Bush administration officials who may have been involved in the Valerie Plame leak.
It is now known that Karl Rove, Bush's Senior Advisor, at least confirmed the fact that Plame was a CIA operative (despite the repeated assurance of the White House that even suggesting such a thing was "ridiculous"). But there is an ongoing investigation to determine which of Bush's cohorts may be guilty of a crime; the investigation has even involved Dubya himself.
As Jon Stewart points out, though, the criminal nature of all of this hardly seems the point anymore. What everyone should be getting worked up about is that Karl Rove and the White House lied over and over by saying that Karl Rove was not involved in any way with the scandal, when he in fact confirmed the leak to Robert Novak, the very reporter who wrote the original article.
(The Daily Show explains the whole story brilliantly in this clip; more Daily Show clips at Comedy Central and all over Google.)
It is now known that Karl Rove, Bush's Senior Advisor, at least confirmed the fact that Plame was a CIA operative (despite the repeated assurance of the White House that even suggesting such a thing was "ridiculous"). But there is an ongoing investigation to determine which of Bush's cohorts may be guilty of a crime; the investigation has even involved Dubya himself.
As Jon Stewart points out, though, the criminal nature of all of this hardly seems the point anymore. What everyone should be getting worked up about is that Karl Rove and the White House lied over and over by saying that Karl Rove was not involved in any way with the scandal, when he in fact confirmed the leak to Robert Novak, the very reporter who wrote the original article.
(The Daily Show explains the whole story brilliantly in this clip; more Daily Show clips at Comedy Central and all over Google.)
