The Collapse Of Fitzmas – The Official Reaction
Here is a small collection of reactions from PlameGate principals to the collapse of the case against Rove.
President Bush: “Along with others in the White House, I took a sigh of relief” when the news broke this week that Rove would not be charged in the CIA leak investigation, Bush told reporters in a Rose Garden news conference. “I trust Karl Rove.”
Howard Dean: “He leaked the name of an intelligence operative at a time of war,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responded in an interview. “I don’t know another president who would not fire someone like this.”
Dean said Rove has survived only because Bush suffers from an “incredible blind spot for personal loyalty.”
Joe Wilson himself even took a break from the Vanity Fair cocktail party circuit long enough to comment: “There is contemporaneous evidence that Mr. Rove was the source of compromising Valerie’s identity” to two reporters — Novak and Time’s Matthew Cooper, Wilson said. “Is that the conduct one should expect from a senior government servant?”
No word yet from Valerie Plame Wilson, whose life was ruined – ruined, I say! -, presumably because she is so busy working on her $2.5 million book…
How rich hearing about the ethics of a government servant from Joe Wilson; the man who attempted to make his own foreign policy through public fraud. Likewise from Dean declaring his wretched fantasies about Rove as the Gospel truth and due process be damned. What a raft of idiots and scum.