Anyone remember this? Karl Rove leaked Valarie Plame’s role as a CIA operative.

Now, again via C&L, it appears Karl Rove continues to mess with CIA personal for political gain. Not that it worked; still.

I’m smelling a Rove rat. Are you? Why the silence from Cantor? Clearly Reichert tipped Cantor off in the hopes of using this information in some way. The Petraeus/Rove relationship is real and long-standing. Is it possible that Paula was passing Rove information to use against President Obama in his re-election bid?

So, there is a timeline of events, more or less unrelated.

• June 11, 2012 – Broadwell pictured with Rove, who tweets about it in June.
• June-August, 2012 – FBI receives complaint about “harassing emails” sent by Broadwell to Jill Kelley
• October 26, 2012 – Fox News “Exclusive” claiming CIA requested and was refused reinforcements.
• October 26, 2012 – Broadwell pimps the Fox News version of events at a University of Denver symposium
• October 28, 2012 – Rove hammers and expands on it in an interview on Fox News
• Approximately October 28-31, 2012 – FBI confronts Petraeus and interviews him about emails, determines no breaches of national security have taken place.
• October 31, 2012 – Cantor Chief of Staff contacted by Rep. Dave Reichert about FBI ‘whistleblower’. Cantor says he contacted the FBI immediately.
• November 6, 2012 – Barack Obama wins re-election
• November 6, 2012 – James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) informed of FBI investigation
• November 8, 2012 – Petraeus submits resignation
• November 9, 2012 – Resignation accepted

So, what is the deal here? There is something more to this story. Was it suppose to hurt President Obama? Obviously it did not. Instead, it looks to have backfired? Will Karl Rove finally be frog marched?

It will forever haunt him to the end of his days.

via Kevin Drum.

(WSJ) Agents spent weeks piecing together who may have sent them. They used metadata footprints left by the emails to determine what locations they were sent from. They matched the places, including hotels, where Ms. Broadwell was during the times the emails were sent. FBI agents and federal prosecutors used the information as probable cause to seek a warrant to monitor Ms. Broadwell’s email accounts.

….They learned that Ms. Broadwell and Mr. Petraeus had set up private Gmail accounts to use for their communications, which included explicit details of a sexual nature, according to U.S. officials. But because Mr. Petraeus used a pseudonym, agents doing the monitoring didn’t immediately uncover that he was the one communicating with Ms. Broadwell.

I have to agree with Kevin: Continue reading →

via C&L:

“…..anybody who votes for cuts to social security and cuts to medicare can expect a primary in the year 2014.”