Does the fact that Bush has nominated someone for the SCOTUS mean that Karl Rove is off the hook? No! The grand jury is still working and the special prosecutor is still gathering evidence. Only time will tell what happens to Rove.
An interesting column written by Eric Mink from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes the following point about Bush's White House staff: "They think they work for President George W. Bush. They don't. They work for America." http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/ericmink/story/9B4E75AD9D6F9A7D86257044003231CB?OpenDocument
Here are some additional points made in the article: "The administration's response to the Wilson-Plame-Rove mess has been a laughable catalogue of excuses from denial to defense to rationalization - not unlike the ever-changing rationales offered for the invasion of Iraq after weapons of mass destruction were nowhere to be found. There is nothing laughable, however, about the effects of Rove's blind zeal to reinforce Bush's power and advance his agenda."
"The greatest threat to America today is international terrorism, and the worst-case scenarios, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff reminded us last week, involve terrorists acquiring and using a weapon of mass destruction."
"Valerie Wilson, 42, was an undercover agent in the counterproliferation division of the CIA's directorate of operations: Her focus was intelligence about the spread of weapons of mass destruction. As The New York Times reported earlier this month, not even the Wilsons' next-door neighbors knew she worked for the CIA until Novak blew her cover two years ago."
"It's impossible to say whether or to what extent this has jeopardized her life and work and that of her contacts and sources, to say nothing of other agents associated with her fake employer, Brewster Jennings & Associates of Boston. What is certain is that Valerie Wilson no longer can work undercover and that an American intelligence asset 21 years in the making - she joined the agency in 1984 - has been irreparably damaged."
Just when you thought you'd heard it all about the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation "Coingate," there is even more info in Steve Eder's article in The Toledo Blade.
"A consultant hired to examine the investment portfolio of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation told agency officials yesterday that investment performance reports provided by the bureau's outside money managers had not been properly vetted for accuracy."
"In total, the state's insurance fund for injured workers has acknowledged $300 million in losses and fired five investment managers since The Blade began reporting on the agency's troubles in April."
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050720/NEWS24/507200446
