COVER-UP?

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Sir Winston Churchill




Um dia Tony Blair também teve que "deixar sair" Alastair Campbell.
Sucede que Rove é muito mais fundamental para George Bush.
Há quem pense mesmo que é "o" fundamental...


"CIA agent's spouse says Bush aide must go
15 July 2005

WASHINGTON: The husband of a CIA agent whose identity was exposed during the fierce debate over the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of being involved in a giant "cover-up" involving top aide Karl Rove. Federal investigators are looking into who leaked the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name appeared in a newspaper column exactly two years ago, on July 14, 2003. Rove, who orchestrated Bush's presidential campaigns, has emerged as a source for at least one other media report on the case.

"What this thing has been for the past two years has been a cover-up, a cover-up of the ... web of lies that underpin the justification for going to war in Iraq," said Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, a career foreign service officer who served in the Clinton White House.

"And to a certain extent, this cover-up is becoming unravelled. That's why you see the White House stonewalling," Wilson told NBC's Today show.

Bush, whose approval ratings have fallen in recent months, has had no public words of support for his long-time adviser. He said he would withhold judgment and ordered his staff to cooperate with investigators.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan, travelling with Bush to Indiana, declined to comment on Wilson's charges. "We'll let the investigation continue and come to a conclusion," he said.

It is a federal offence to knowingly reveal the identity of a U.S. undercover agent, and Bush said in 2003 he would fire whoever leaked the classified information about Plame. The special prosecutor investigating the case could also be considering charges of obstruction of justice or perjury.

Wilson, who briefly served as an adviser to the campaign of Bush's 2004 presidential opponent, Sen. John Kerry but also served in the first Bush administration, added his voice to Democrats calling for Rove to be fired.

Wilson has said repeatedly the leak was aimed at discrediting him for criticizing Bush's Iraq policy in 2003, after a CIA-funded trip in 2002 to investigate whether Niger helped supply nuclear materials to Baghdad."
(google News-15.7)

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