Joseph Wilson Calls on Bush to Fire Rove

Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson called on President Bush Thursday to fire deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, saying Bush's top-level aide engaged in an "abuse of power" by discussing Wilson's wife's job with a reporter.

Wilson decried what he called a White House "stonewall" in the wake of revelations that Rove, a longtime Bush confidant, was involved in the leak to the news media that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA officer.

Bush said Wednesday that he would not comment on discussions that blew her cover because it is the subject of an ongoing investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said, however, the president still has confidence in Rove.

Wilson, in an interview broadcast Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, said he thinks the White House's posture in this controversy represents a continuing "cover-up of the web of lies that underpin the justification for going to war in Iraq."

Wilson was asked about statements by Rove's defenders noting that an e-mail describing Rove's conversation with Time reporter Matthew Cooper indicated that Rove did not specifically mention Valerie Plame by name.

"My wife's name is Mrs. Joseph Wilson," he replied. "It is Mrs. Valerie Wilson. He named her. He identified her," Wilson said. "So that argument doesn't stand the smell test ... What I do know is that Mr. Rove is talking to the press and he is saying things like my wife is fair game. That's an outrage. That's an abuse of power." (End of Article)


( Wow, this guy Wilson can't even read. Rove stated to Cooper that Joe Wilsons wife worked for the CIA. He did not name her. All through this story she has been referred to as Valerie Plame, I have never heard of her referred to as Mrs. Joseph Wilson or Mrs. Valerie Wilson. Now all of a sudden when Wilson see's that Rove has committed NO crime here, Plames last name suddenly changes to Wilson for the Dems and the MSNM convenience . What a joke this whole thing is turning out to be the MSNM and the Dummocrats are falling over each other trying to sink Rove and now Wilson tells one more lie.)

J.R.