All right, so it will be hard to prove that Rove actually broke the law. Just like it is hard to prove that anyone in any administration has ever "broken" the law. So we don't know what the grand jury knows, and right now it doesn't appear that Rove broke any laws. Did he leak? You bet he did. Why did he leak? That is the question. Certainly the leak wasn't in the interest of the nation, right? So it was to score political points? How sad, but then again, how typical of this administration.

Fitzgerald is killing the days of bringing light into corrupt administrations. How far would the Nixon White House have went without Woodward's Deepthroat? We just may find out before the last days of Bush II.

So you admit there was no crime, but then lament that light can't be shed on the crime? The reporter's own notes (Woodward in your analogy) vindiate Rove. If you want to understand the situation instead of engaging in demagoguery, try starting here.

You might also want to note that Wilson wrote a book saying that neither he nor his wife had served out of country since 1997. Six years before this story came out. The law in question specifically defines an undercover operative as someone who in the previous five years had served out of country in such a role.

I would also argue that Rove's information was indeed in the national interest - insomuch as it was meant to discredit the partisan lies Wilson had put in his NYT Op-ed piece. Wilson was the piece of shit trying to score political points with matters of importance related to national security and the decision making process on whether we should be going to war. It is obvious that both he and his wife were part of the contemptible mentality at the CIA that prefers the genocidal maniac we know to the dangers of the unknown, a policy which I am sure in a previous life (administration) you would have been quick to denounce.

Further, you analogy applies more to you. Wilson was derelict in his duty, a duty he only had due to nepotism by his wife. Rove IS Deepthroat in this case. Also don't see how you can criticize Fitzgerald - seems most Dems and certainly members of the media include the NYT believe he has been overzealous. The NYT even came out a year ago and said no crime was committed, of course that was because a) they knew it was true, and b) Fitzgerald was subpoenaing its reporters.

I am sorry; I don't believe I ever said I am a "Dem" anyway.

The noose is tightening around Rove's neck, my boy. This is not about Wilson's article at all; so don't try to move the discussion that way. I argue that smearing Wilson is the only way any self-respecting neocon can wake up in the morning. It gives you the strength to go on with your day. No, this isn't about Wilson at all.

This is about Rove and this White House. It is about lies and morals. It is about our president ad his staff saying one thing, but doing something else. Rove wasn't acting in the nation's interest. To suggest it, shows how blind you are. He did it to smear someone who spoke out against the president. He is abusing the power of the office. I thought Bush was going to "restore integrity to the office."

And it appears that Rove has broken some laws, now. But this isn't about the law, Cowboy. This is about politics. Dirty, stinking politics. This about a soiled White House. This is about a president who doesn't respect the office or the American people.

I don't care what you are, Dem or otherwise - you are clearly an ill-informed troll that either can't grasp an issue beyond the headline level (and only headlines from Kos, DU, or Ted Rall, at that) or that knows better but hopes to make political hay where there is none to be had. Anyone who has read the 9/11 commission report knows that Wilson was thoroughly discredited. If you call describing a lying partisan hack as a lying partisan hack a smear job, you may be a little to sensitive to live. The only dirty stinking politics being played is by people like you who admit that Rove didn't commit a crime and expect him to be treated like he did because you know that you can't beat his machine and are still pissed about getting beat by Chimpy McHaliburton. Go masturbate to some Michael Moore "documentaries" - I am sure you will feel much better afterwords.

" ... you may be a little to sensitive to live."

Who is too sensitive?

The Michel Moore comment made me chuckle. Here is something to make you laugh. Just wait for the next big item to break in this story. You will be so disheartened, you will wish you could even get an erection with which to play.

You must be a real insider and the information you have access to must be pretty devastating if I have to worry about ED. I wait with bated breath (hardly) for the "next big thing."

Read it and weep, Moonbat APB.