Many of us, myself included, believed early on that Karl Rove had acted inappropriately and had quite possibly committed a crime by revealing to his press contacts that Valerie Plame worked as a CIA operative.
Now, however, we know the truth. Although he acted for partisan political gain in an attempt to deceive voters into supporting a war that should have never been fought, and although he intended that his actions would cast doubt on someone he knew to have been telling the truth, and although in the process Rove damaged covert operations designed to stop nuclear proliferation, we now know that the patriotic Rove NEVER EVEN MENTIONED Valerie Plame's name, referring simply to "Joe Wilson's wife."
Accordingly, it is clear that to attempt to hold Rove responsible for his acts would constitute moral relativism of the worst sort and will only result in more coddling of terrorists. Mr. Rove, please accept my humble apologies.