Froomkin (WaPo) challenges reporters to investigate Rove

[grasswire]

Dan Froomkin (bless him) has challenged the Washington press corps to finish Fitzgerald's work on Rove through investigative reporting.

Please visit his page. Thanking him wouldn't hurt, either. Every single day, he's fighting for the truth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/06/13/BL2006061300764.html

Here's the first part of today's column:

>>>>>Senior White House political adviser Karl Rove's successful avoidance of criminal charges in the CIA leak investigation is a huge win for the White House.

It's also a massive blow to those who had hoped that special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation would end Rove's career as a cunning and outlandishly successful Republican strategist.

And finally, it means Fitzgerald probably won't be shedding any more light on Rove's role in the outing of Valerie Plame.

By all rights, that latter job should now fall to the press.

The White House has long maintained -- spuriously, I might add -- that the ongoing criminal investigation precluded them from answering any questions even vaguely related to Rove's conduct.

Now, without charges against Rove in the offing, the media should demand answers to a slew of questions. The overriding issue: Just because Rove wasn't charged with a crime doesn't mean his conduct meets the standards the public expects from its White House.

If Rove was irresponsibly lax with classified information, if he intentionally misled the press, the press secretary and the president, if he conspired with fellow White House aides to punish someone who spoke out against the president -- all of which appears to be the case -- what is he still doing serving as the president's most trusted aide?<<<<<

[Champion Jack]

1. Great idea. The only way it would work tho'

would be for the MSM to show some courage, to grow a pair of big brass one's.
Maybe stop being cowed by these criminal tugs in the WH.
They won't. "wouldn't be prudent"

[acmavm]

2. They want to look into kkkarl, find out where he got all his

money.

[Miss_Underestimated]

3. How can you do investigative reporting if all the phone lines are tapped?

[glitch]

4. Parking garages. ;) Welcome to DU. nt