MichaelCortese is one angry American...
Now we have the Chief of Staff of a White House that claims job one is keeping the American people safe compromising the effectiveness of an intelligence operative working on the weapons of mass destruction that the same White House said was the number one priority in American security. If it turns out to be solid that Rove was the source of the outing, that fact should be harped on like the next Downing Street Memo using the keywords treason, perjury and hypocrisy repeated again and again until the seriousness of this crime sinks in and the media can’t pretend that it’s a little mistake, a misunderstanding, and no big deal, like the deaths of thousands in a needless war. ¹
(There lots more, and he is angry all the way.)
TelePolis also has an English article on the same subject:
The White House did not conduct a vigorous investigation about how they came to present a case to the American people for a war against Iraq based on evidence that had been previously and subsequently discredited. Instead the White House has spent much effort to discredit or harm those who have brought information about the fraudulent nature of the claims that Iraq’s was seeking to buy uranium from Africa. Even more serious, however, is the fact that the WSJ [Wall Street Journal] is applauding a government official who has tried and in some cases succeeded, in implicating reporters and the US press in retaliating against Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame, as examples of what happens to those who are willing to challenge the lies about Iraq’s WMD that were spread by the White House. ²
#USA