Repub Spin Forecast re: CIA asking for White House Investigation.

[SilasSoule]

I'm really having trouble thinking of ways they will squirm out of this one other than the obvious and obligitory:

"This is nothing more than just another White house leak to a reporter".

"Leaks happen all the time under every administration"

"If there was any wrongdoing..it should be looked into and the person responsible be reprimanded appropriately"

I'm sure their heads are spinning to create even more spinsanity and they will come up with the appropiate countermeasures (Will they find a way to tie Clinton into this?)

We need to go on the attack. Can we not make a case of treason for this being as how we are fighting a global war on terrorism and exposing a covert CIA agent specializing in Wepons of Mass Destruction and thus compromising her missions and contacts AIDS THE TERRORISTS AND THREATENS THE SECURITY OF THE U.S.!!!!

She was gathering valuable human intelligence on the real, suticase type WMD's that terrorists want to procure, not the fabricated, fantasy WMD's in IRAQ!! Exposing her also put her life and the lives of all her sources, contacts and associates in danger, not to mention her husband and was not that the point all along. Tell me guys...am I reaching here?????

[bluestateguy]

1. It will be Bill Clinton's fault

[jamesinca]

2. Yes it was Clintons fault

I need to know what he eats for breakfast, the penis he is reported to have is incredible. I need one like that. One that could bring down tall buildings, start wars. Let me tell you, he must duct tape that thing in his pants otherwise it would drag on the floor behind him.

[Jose Diablo]

3. Rove aided the terrorists

And should be arrested under the Patriot Act.

A military tribunal would follow and then the execution.

This could get interesting.

[SilasSoule]

4. LOL....using the patriot act

TO bring down the White house.....some sweet irony there.

[TacticalPeek]

5. I only wish there were a provable state violation involved also.

Federal time is much easier to do than state time. These traitors deserve every punishment that can be heaped on them.

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[alfredo]

6. Outing an agent can earn you 10 years in prison.

No matter how many are imprisoned, Bush will pardon them.

[Patriot_Spear]

7. I think you're onto something there...

Clearly betraying the identity of a CIA Agent is a boon to terrorists- surely there's some part of the Patriot Act (aka the Constitution Nullification Act) that can bee applied to Rove for this bit of treachery!

[TacticalPeek]

11. Surprise! The unPatriot act cuts both ways.

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"Under the new USA PATRIOT ACT, Section 802 of HR 3162 defines domestic terrorism as "activities that - involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States:... and "appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;" or "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;".
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http://www.deantalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=288

My judgement is that any sufficiently endowed US attorney could fry they ass.

[Patriot_Spear]

8. This needs to be drawn out until the new Democratic Admin is in power...

Not even Shrub can give a 'carte blanche' pardon before Rove has been charged. Let's hope this drips, drips, drips, like a festering wound until a Democrat can put Herr Rove in a 7x7 cell.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Amazingly, he CAN pre-pardon, a la Ford's pardon of Nixon.

I think Ford may have acutally thought he was acting in the best interest of the country.

The mendacity would be obvious in Bush's pardons, and would be the final stamp of disgrace on the worst Presidency in our history. Unless aWol himself gets one, and then we should just close the record books.

[SeattleRob]

9. Maybe they won't have to do much spinning....

As of Saurday Morning, Pacific time, there is nothing being reported by the Corporate Lapdog Media. It is mind boggling to me. This is a huge story, historically unprecedented.

Maybe I am just being impatient. If they do spin it, they will:

Multiple Choice:

a) Blame Clinton
b) Point out the Andrea Mitchell is Mrs. Alan Greenspan
c) Accuse the CIA of hating America
d) Ignore it and hope it goes away (which is a possibility - See
lapdog Media
e) Start another war to take attention away from this