Olbermann to Rove: Newsflash! 'You guys leaked like hell' David Edwards

Published: Thursday February 12, 2009





Print This Email This While speaking to an audience at Loyola Marymount University the other week, former Bush adviser Karl Rove expressed his belief that government leaks to the media can cause serious damage.



On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann told viewers, "Karl Rove is still talking. The creator of the impermanent Republican majority, the possessor of the math that did not add up, telling an audience at Loyola Marymount University in L.A. that government leaks to the media can cause serious harm and newspapers should not run them. And he never did."



"Quote, 'the Bush White House was criticized for being tight lipped,'" Olbermann continued. "'We didnt leak. Secrecy and confidentiality are necessary for every government, especially when youre at war,' he scolded."



Olbermann went to town on what he perceived as Rove's hypocrisy.



"So why didnt you practice that?" Olbermann asked. "You guys leaked like hell. You and your minions leaked the name of a CIA op, ironically one devoted to countering weapons of mass destruction, while you were starting up a war supposedly designed neutralize weapons of mass destruction. By the way, the quote/unquote leak youre still whining about, the 'New York Times' revealing that you and your fellow future convicts had arranged to illegally eavesdrop on many, most or all Americans, and maybe some people who might have had tangential connections to terrorism, maybe, that leak came from somewhere in your government, Karl."



Olbermann then accused Rove of "doing the same things to Americans that the terrorists want to do to Americans."



"So stop spraining your arm patting yourself on your back, because somebody among you realized that what you were doing, infiltrating the communications of Americans, violating the privacy of Americans, gaining secret information to use against Americans, and causing fear and anxiety to grow among Americanssomebody realized that doing that, Karl, was you doing the same things to Americans that the terrorists want to do to Americans," Olbermann said.



This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Feb. 11, 2009.









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