Rove strategy
July 18th, 2005 - No Comments »
Judging by the past actions of our administration, which values loyalty much higher than accountability, this is what I expect to see in the coming weeks:
1) Bush (this has already happened) announces that he will “fire anybody who has committed a crime“ in connection with the Plame/Wilson matter.
2) The White House will exert influence into the investigation to make sure they don’t look too deeply into whether Rove knew Plame was undercover. Since the law specifically says that in order to commit a crime, someone must “knowingly” expose an agent, Rove will be found not guilty of any crime.
3) Bush will indicate that’s what he meant all along when he said that he’d fire anyone who exposed an operative.
4) Rove will be hailed as a hero by the right wing press because he was protecting Cheney all along. Bush will give him a medal.
5) The issue of Rove’s irresponsibility will be ignored. Somehow whether or not perjury was committed in the grand jury investigation will also be ignored.
Then again, the neo-cons think the crime in Iran-Contra was exposing it, not doing it. As matter of fact, two of the key figures from Iran-Contra are now in the Bush administration:
Robert Earl is now serving in one of the most coveted offices of the Pentagon as chief of staff to Gordon England, acting deputy secretary of Defense. In 1987 Earl admitted to a grand jury that he had destroyed and stolen national security documents while working for Lt. Col. Oliver North during the Iran-Contra scandal. He was never prosecuted. The Los Angeles Times reports that in his new position, Earl has clearance to review the kinds of classified documents he once destroyed. Several other key players in the Iran-Contra affair – including Elliott Abrams and John Poindexter – have played key roles in the current Bush administration.