They're trying to distract us. The point is not whether Rove used Valerie Plame's name or just called her "Wilson's wife." That is not the point and that does not matter.
The point is that Rove said he knew nothing about it, said nothing about it. Well, I am so sorry, sir, but if you spoke about "Joe Wilson's wife" then you did indeed know something, you did indeed say something.
I'm not that stupid.
I'm not that easily diverted.
First you said you knew nothing, then you said you didn't use her name. Well which is it? You've contradicted yourself.
As for the diversion, it's about identifying her. It's really quite simple. "Joe Wilson's wife" = Mrs. Wilson = Valerie Plame.
It does not matter which name or label you used for her. It matters if you identified her. Clearly you did. You said you did (but not by her name...).
But at some point, you lied about it. Regardless of what you knew about Valerie Plame, regardless of what you said about Valerie Plame, misleading the grand jury, lying to the grand jury, is obstruction of justice. And if you did that, it's illegal.
And yes, lying about whether or not you outed a CIA agent (as a, let's face it, very bitchy way to try to discredit Joe Wilson so that people would not attend to his report that said there was no reason to go to war with Iraq; a war, let's please remember, in which 2,000 American soldiers have now died) is a much bigger deal than lying about who's gone down on you in the oval office.
The Righties are trying to say this is all a political game of those mean Lefties. There's a key problem with this argument: the Lefties are not the reason this investigation got started.
Harm was done to a CIA agent. The CIA didn't take kindly to that. The CIA took the issue to the DOJ.
How is that a Lefty political game?
Two days left. Will anyone be indicted? We shall see. The clock is ticking...
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