Karl Rove - National Security Threat?

By: Ryan Fant

This weekend Lawrence O'Donnell of the Huffington Post revealed that Karl Rove was the administration official who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame in retribution for her husband's criticisims of the administration's handling of pre-war intelligence. The allegation, which was collaborated by reports in the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek, would mean that Bush's top advisor committed a felonious act for the political gain of the president.

In recent weeks, Karl Rove has been busy painting liberals as anti-patriotic and unwilling to make sacrifices for this country, while he himself has been undermining our national security by compromising sorely-needed undercover intelligence assests. This Nixonian betrayal of national trust cannot be ignored.

Although President Bush will likely do everything he can to protect the man who made him president, he should remember the words his father spoke in 1999: "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."