How Karl Rove kept his security clearance.

In the Plame hearing today it was revealed that the CIA did indeed view Valerie Plame as covert, therefore her outing was a leak of classified info.

So, why then was there no internal White House investigation into the leaking of classified material (as promised by our president?)

Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congressional committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.....

Knodell testified that those who had participated in the leaking of classified information were required to attest to this and he was not aware that anyone, including Karl Rove, had done that.....

Rep. Waxman recalled that President Bush had promised a full internal probe. Knodell repeated that no probe took place, as far as he knew, and was not happening today.

If this investigation had gone forward, Karl Rove would've been stripped of security clearance.

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