9.19.2005

Calling Mr. Rove....

Congress critters are demanding more investigation into the Valerie Plame affair. Here, from Gaelic Starover:

...from the office of Congressman Maurice Hinchey:"
    Troubled by what they see as violations of federal law that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and 40 of his House colleagues today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asking that he expand his investigation of who in the Bush Administration revealed to the news media that Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a covert agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

    Hinchey and his colleagues urged Fitzgerald, who was designated as special prosecutor for the case, to examine the causes behind the exposure of Plame's identity -- specifically, the Bush Administration's false and fraudulent claims in January 2003 that Iraq had sought uranium for a nuclear weapon, which the Administration used as one of the key grounds to justify the invasion of Iraq."
Mr. Fitzgerald would do well to extend the investigation even further and include the White House's leak of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan's identity to the press.This leak gave a "heads-up" to terrorists in several countries and may made the July 7th bomobings in London possible.

Also, it shows a pattern and clearly demonstrates that the Bush Administration is willing do endanger human lives if they can calculate that it will stregthen themselves politically.