Broder says Rove deserves apology

In the Washington Post, August 7, 2006, David S. Broder wrote:

For much of the past five years, dark suspicions have been voiced about the Bush White House undermining its critics, and Karl Rove has been fingered as the chief culprit in this supposed lot to suppress the opposition. Now at least one count in that indictment has been substantially weakened -- the charge that Rove masterminded a conspiracy to discredit Iraq intelligence critic Joseph Wilson by "outing" his CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame. In fact, the prosecutor concluded that there was no crime; hence, no indictment. And we now know that the original "leak," in casual conversations with reporters Novak and Bob Woodward, came not from the conspiracy theorists' target in the White House but from the deputy secretary of state at the time, Richard Armitage, an esteemed member of the Washington establishment and no pal of Rove or President Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601648.html

My response to Broder:

David,

OJ Simpson was found not guilty of murder. Applying your reasoning, maybe we should have apologized, and compensated him for lost income potential during his detainment.