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Monday July 11, 2005.

Chorus for Rove's head grows louder
RAW STORY


Last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) was the only one calling for Karl
Rove to explain or resign, and 16 other House members had joined him
by the end of the week.

Today, after a flurry of press activity this weekend and in the White
House briefing room, the Democrats' leader in the Senate added his
voice, albeit slightly more tempered.

"I agree with the President when he said he expects the people who
work for him to adhere to the highest standards of conduct," Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said in a statement this afternoon.

"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame
affair, they would no longer be in this administration. I trust they
will follow through on this pledge. If these allegations are true this
rises above politics and is about our national security."

And Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) also jumped in.

"It is time for the President to keep his word. Karl Rove should be
fired and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," Slaughter said.

"There can be no gray area here, regardless of how he phrased it,
regardless of how much detail he provided, he revealed the identity of
an undercover CIA agent. What Mr. Rove did is reprehensible. Putting
the life of an undercover CIA agent in jeopardy can not be tolerated.
He clearly deserves his pink slip."

The White House was mum Monday.

"The prosecutors overseeing the investigation had expressed a
preference to us that one way to help the investigation is not to be
commenting on it from this podium," White House Press Secretary
McClellan said.

But this didn't stop the press. At various points reporters remarked,
"Scott, this is ridiculous," and "You're in a bad place, here, Scott."

McClellan had previously denied Rove's role, and the mainstream press,
unable to use the word lie in print, were fed up.

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Harry