While I hate to be too much involved into American politics, I find the comments in defense of Rove hilarious. For example, Fox’s news anchor John Gibson claimed the following (on why Rove should get a medal):
Why should she have been outed? Well, despite her husband’s repeated denials, even in the face of a pile of evidence and conclusions from a joint investigation of Congress, it appears all evidence points to Joe Wilson’s wife, spy Valerie Plame, as the one who recommended him for the job of going to Niger to discover if Saddam was trying to buy nuke bomb materials.
So, if your boss asks you who he should hire to do some work, don’t recommend anybody: I mean, you’ll be blamed for this. After all, it was you (sic) who hired him, not your boss. The logic. (Remember: Plame didn’t hire her husband)
Then there is the editorial that comes from the WSJ, our daily source for comedy it appears after reading its title alone: ‘Karl Rove. Whistleblower’.
For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real “whistleblower” in this whole sorry pseudo-scandal. He’s the one who warned Time’s Matthew Cooper and other reporters to be wary of Mr. Wilson’s credibility.
I mean, my definition of whistleblower comes close to the one provided by MW Law Edition which says that a whistleblower is “an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency and who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies for retaliation”. Home assignment: define “wrongdoing” in Wilson’s case.
Which brings me to the GOP’s Talking points (as found by Raw Story) (analyzed, courtesy of The Left Coaster). There are so many items in that memo conservative party hacks can talk about but they all disguise the single fact that somebody broke the law. Once again: somebody broke the law. Simple and clear. You break the law, you get punished.
(The GOP’s talking points memo reminds me of arguments between kids where one of them states a fact and the other one tries to discredit the person instead of talking about the fact itself. I was quilty of that too).
Update (07/15): In another twist to the story: It’s Karl Rove, Whistleblower for Novak!
Update (07/15): Speculation over at DailyKos.