Excerpt from John Kerry's speech today at Brookings re Rove, Ashcroft..

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.johnkerry.com/news/clips/news_2003_0930b.html

Recent claims that an individual in the Bush administration leaked the name of a CIA operative "beyond the pale and unacceptable," Kerry said.

The disclosure of the intelligence officer's identity by the media came soon after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, undermined Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. The administration later acknowledged its claims about the uranium were untrue.

"President Bush's father called those who expose the names of national security sources 'traitors,'" Kerry said. "And this President Bush needs to start going after any traitors in his midst - and that means more than an inside once-over from his friend - and Karl Rove's client - John Ashcroft."

[molly]

1. Kind of puts ASScraft between a rock and a hard place

let's see him weasel out of this.

[rucky]

2. Sounds like Kerry reads Will Pitt...(n/t)

[KC21304]

3. Good for him, and for us. n/t

[rogerashton]

4. It is a much worse crime than Mr. Nixon's burglary.

eom

[blm]

5. No comparison.

These thugs make the Nixon White House look like petty thieves.

[sandnsea]

6. tin-eared administration

"Today, our soldiers lives, the future of Iraq and the solidarity of free nations are being threatened not by a tin-horn dictator, but by a tin-eared administration which insists that it is always right, refuses to admit when it is wrong and over and over again misleads the American people," Kerry said.

This is pretty good too. lol.

And this:

"The administration's plan will neither win the peace nor keep our troops safe," Kerry said. "It seems more like Richard Nixon's secret plan for peace that led to more war than it does Harry Truman's Marshall Plan for peace and stability. The issue isn't what we're spending, it's what we're buying."

[Octafish]

7. Wonder why the media aren't all over this?

Not. Giving the voters an unobstructed view of Kerry and the other DEM candidates and their words would make it an unfair election. And not just in the primaries — with the general election more than a year away, the Little Turd from Crawford would be clobbered!

[blm]

8. The good guys in the intel community are lining up behind Kerry.

This is the best chance for the BFEE to get exposed.

Any of you working against Kerry at this point better check your compasses.

[Nicholas_J]

9. Kerry

is demanding that the investigation be taken out of the hands of the Justice Department.

[DrFunkenstein]

10. They Would Never Do That To Clinton, Though

I think we should be as fair with the GOP as they were during the late-90's.

[MrPeepers]

11. As well

he should be! Good for John! Too bad the White House isn't going to be paying attention.