As if we need more proof of how corrupt the Bush administration is, now there is a criminal investigation into whether someone in the administration compromised the nation’s security.

An undercover CIA agent, an agent under nonofficial cover, whose focus was weapons of mass destruction proliferation, may have had her cover blown by two senior Bush administration officials who didn’t like a column her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, wrote in The New York Times, presumably because what he wrote was damaging to the administration’s rationale for going to war. During the two years following that column, the White House denied and refuted any allegations that Karl Rove was one of the two suspected of leaking information in the case.

Now evidence has surfaced that Rove, may, in fact, have been involved, and his own lawyer has admitted Rove was involved.

There are a couple of possibilities here: Karl Rove may have lied to the president of the United States about his involvement in this case, or the president of the United States may have lied to the nation about Karl Rove’s involvement and kept a known security risk on his staff for two years. Which is it?

And how can the president claim to be fighting the “war on terror” when he would rather score political points than protect the country’s national security interests?

Dave Chirayath, Auburn

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