Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Rove Innocent In Plame Case

There's a lesson for us here.

Just because someone sucks and is a bad person doesn't mean he's guilty.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sgtory says he won't be charged. It doesn't say he's innocent.

8:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was going to say the same thing.

8:23 AM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

1. Legally speaking, if he's not proven guilty, he's innocent.

2. More importantly: the prosecutors in this case know more about it than we ever will. If they're not going to charge him, it's likely that, in their estimation, he didn't do it.

8:50 AM  
Blogger James Redekop said...

If they're not going to charge him, it's likely that, in their estimation, he didn't do it.

Not quite: it means that, in their estimation, they can't prove he did it to the satisfaction of a court. And this is very much the sort of case where he could have been very involved without leaving any solid evidence around.

Or he could be innocent.

10:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We do know that Rove revealed Plame's identity to Matthew Cooper of Time, that Duhbya said he would fire anyone in the White House who did this, that Rove still works there, and that Rove had convenient memory lapses about exactly what he said to whom.

We also know that Fitzgerald has not confirmed Rove's attorney's claim, nor released any letter that shows details.

Regardless of whether Rove did anything chargeable, he did bad things that an honest official would not do, and the stench goes all the way to the top - to Dick Cheney.

1:48 PM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

My revision:

Karl Rove is a sonofabitch who puts party above country. And the wrong party to boot. He's done lots of crooked things we know about, and, no doubt, at least some that we don't know about. It would not surprise me if he did this, too. But the honest peole (i.e. the people outside the administration) who know most about the case have apparently concluded that there's insufficient evidence to prove that he did beyond a reasonable doubt. He may, of course, have cut a deal, but I don't see any appreciable evidence of that.

So, if the space aliens come down right now and tell me that they'll destroy the Earth unless I answer the following question correctly: "Is Rove guilty of the charges in question?"...I guess I'm going to have to guess in the negative...but I'll be sweating bullets when I do.

5:49 PM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

My take is that he's "guilty" of the act. What's unclear is whether it was a crime.

That was Fitz' conundrum.

7:38 PM  

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