Wow. Did that title get your attention?

Well, this got my attention this morning:

White House senior adviser Karl Rove has been told by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that he will not be charged in the CIA leak case, according to Robert Luskin, Rove’s lawyer.

I’m really pissed about this. We’re not idiots. America knows that Rove engineered the identity leak — basically putting Valerie Plame’s life on the line even as she was working undercover in the nuclear energy industry researching the very weapons of mass destruction that might one day threaten our country! And to what end? To discredit her husband, who was also researching weapons of mass destruction.

In other words, two people serving their country — one in a most patriotic form — were targeted by the White House for no other reason than that the truth they were telling was making it harder for the Bush Administration to sell their lies.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but isn’t that treason? How does this whole thing get covered up and swept under a rug? Rove committed a high crime against his country, and nobody is upset about this. Well, nobody except my hero, Howard Dean:

“He doesn’t belong in the White House. If the president valued America more than he valued his connection to Karl Rove, Karl Rove would have been fired a long time ago,” Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman, said Tuesday on NBC’s Today show. “So I think this is probably good news for the White House, but it’s not very good news for America.”

There were 23 people involved in outing Valerie Plame’s identity as an undercover CIA agent, and the best thing we could get was an obstruction of justice charge against Scooter Libby?