These things are lot more than just gotcha politics. Sometimes people break the law and do bad things, we don't just let them off because that would be gotcha law enforcement or gotcha ruining the economy. You don't let bank robbers off for example because that would be gotcha policing.
This is so bad that technically it could put most of the White House senior officials in jail or being pardoned. That isn't gotcha politics, that enforcement of criminal statutes and not putting politicians above the law. Actually it was Bush's father who made the law in the first place. This is an offence was a 10 year maximum sentence. Anyone at all who knew about this before or after the fact and did not immediately (note this word immediately as this has been hushed up for months) report this crime is liable for a jail term of 5 years or less.
Which may be the explanation for Rice’s sanguine reaction to an act which compromised our national safety: Rice may know the identity of the leakers who exposed Valerie Plame—possibly because one of the leakers was Rice herself.
Time to start calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate and prosecute this crime where Bush Administration officials compromised national security interests to pursue petty vengence.
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