{"id":3440,"date":"2005-07-11T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/11\/innocent-of-all-charges\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T21:49:08","slug":"innocent-of-all-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/innocent-of-all-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent of all charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt strikes me that the calls for the prosecution and\/or firing of Karl Rove<\/a> are a bit premature. At most, we have reason to believe that Rove may have committed a technical violation of a law regarding covert agents, not a substantial one, by mentioning that Joe Wilson’s wife was a CIA employee. <\/p>\n

It’s certainly not clear that Rove knew that Plame had at one time been in covert ops, or that he made the connection between her and her husband in order to damage her career in any way. And it’s not even clear that Rove technically violated the law, as Plame was a desk-jockey at the time of Rove’s converstations with Matt Cooper and Rove apparently didn’t know of her former role as a covert agent.<\/p>\n

So once again, our conspiratorial friends have failed to deliver the goods after attributing nefarious motives and dire consequences* to Rove. Rather than seeking retaliation against Plame, Rove was simply trying to cut Wilson down to size in the face of claims that Cheney selected him for the mission that confirmed Saddam’s attempts to buy uranium in Niger.<\/p>\n

(*On Air Anti-America, RFK Jr. claimed that at least one agent was killed as a result of Plame’s blown cover.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It strikes me that the calls for the prosecution and\/or firing of Karl Rove are a bit premature. At most, we have reason to believe that Rove may have committed a technical violation of a law regarding covert agents, not a substantial one, by mentioning that Joe Wilson’s wife was a CIA employee. It’s certainly … Continue reading “Innocent of all charges”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Tu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}