IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM TRUEMAJORITY - It's Confirmed: Karl Rove Exposed a CIA Operative - White House Credibility Gap Captured on Video From Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (USN, ret)
I saw combat in three wars and know that national security depends on people who are trusted with confidential information never using it for their personal agendas. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove recently acknowledged that he revealed the identity of a CIA operative, proving that he can't be trusted with classified information. For the sake of national security and to protect America's defenders in the line of fire, President Bush needs to revoke his security clearance and get him out of the White House before he leaks another secret. Congressmembers are calling on the President to strip Rove of his security clearance and fire him. To send a message to your legislators asking them to join in asking for this prudent step, just click here: http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/rovemustgo

You can also watch the video of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan under fire at the July 11th press briefing at that link. Then please forward this message to anyone else you think might be concerned about our national security.

Thanks for helping ... Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (USN, ret.)
Military Advisor to TrueMajority.org

Here's what we know:

An ongoing investigation into this scandal eventually will conclude whether Rove should go to prison or was just inept. In the meantime, the Commander-in-Chief has an obligation to protect our nation and our troops by making sure Rove doesn't get another chance to leak something that, next time, may cost someone more than their career. In his State of the Union message in 2003, George Bush said that Saddam Hussein was trying to get uranium from Niger. In the following weeks, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson disclosed that he was sent to Niger by the CIA to look into this and had reported to top administration officials months before the speech that there was NO Niger-Iraq uranium connection. In a discussion with a reporter at Time magazine about Wilson's disclosure, Rove said that Wilson's wife was the CIA operative who sent him to Niger.

Three days later columnist Robert Novak published the fact that Plame was a CIA operative thus ending her career, possibly endangering her life and ending an important operation. Rove may have been punishing Wilson for embarrassing the President. If Rove exposed Wilson's wife, a covert member of the CIA's weapons of mass destruction team, it would be an act of treason. Rove's lawyer counters that he didn't know she was a covert operative and didn't mean any harm. Either way his disclosure was dangerous and President Bush needs to pull his security clearance and get him out of the White House right now.

The Battle Inside
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves. "One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is God. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

[Duchess Note ... This wonderful tidbit was shared with me by a fellow NYC DoP member.]