Karl Rove is a Bully, but Not a Criminal

Something interesting from Ann Coulter. This is her explaination of what happened with this whole Rove-Wilson-Plame thing. I'm not saying I believe everything in her article is 100% correct, it is just a different explanation of events that the liberal media isn't reporting, and perhaps it requires more investigation. Anyways, here's an interesting tidbit:

Despite the colloquialism being used on TV to describe the relevant criminal offense, the law does not criminalize "revealing the name" of a covert operative. If it did, every introduction of an operative at a cocktail party or a neighborhood picnic would constitute a felony. "Revealing the name of" is shorthand to describe what the law does criminalize: Intentionally revealing a covert operative as a covert operative, knowing it will blow the operative's cover.

Read the entire article, pretty interesting, and it kind of makes the whole ordeal seem moot and pointless. The Roanoke Slant also has a good peice, Rove and Plame-Wilson, that bullets the FACTS of this case, and there seems to be more to this story than the media is letting on. Can we get back to focusing on Iraq and Social Security now, please?

UPDATE: A few more interesting snippets here.

As GOP congressman turned talk-show host Joe Scarborough puts it, if someone in his old congressional office did what Rove unquestionably did, that someone would have been promptly fired, just as the president promised in this case.
"Scarborough, no longer obligated to toe the pathetic Republican Party
line, says it's totally irrelevant if Joe Wilson is a preening partisan who misled investigators about the role his wife played in recommending his Niger
trip. The frantic efforts of the GOP attack machine to change the subject to Wilson shows how scared Republicans are that the master of their universe will be held accountable for Rove's destructive carelessness."

and here:

In National Review, John Podhoretz pours cold water on the story after the NYT says Novak mentioned Plame to Rove and that Rove confirmed it:
"This surely qualifies as one of the 'hey, big whoop' stories of all time. And I am not
saying this because I am some partisan gunslinger. Simple fairness says that an official called by a journalist who volunteers a piece of gossip and then responds, 'I heard that too,' is not retailing a piece of incendiary information intended to destroy lives and place CIA assets in harm's way."And I'm going to be blunt here. Anybody who says different has an agenda that has nothing whatever to do with Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, or much of anything else besides doing damage to the Bush administration and character-assassinating Karl Rove."

Take what you will from that, I tend to agree with the second one.