The silence of the White House re Rove

To the Editor of the NY Times:
"At White House, a Day of Silence on Role of Rove" (front page, July 12) reveals another example of the despicable conduct of high officials in the Bush White House.
First, they fixed the intelligence and facts to further their agenda for war. Then they punished patriotic public servants who disagreed with them, including Gen. Eric K. Shinseki; Paul H. O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary; and Richard A. Clarke, a former counterterrorism official.
Then they attacked Iraq without provocation, killing tens of thousands of people who did us no harm and posed us no danger.
Finally, in violation of signed treaties and contrary to long-held values, they besmirched the moral authority of our country by approving, justifying and carrying out torture.
Not since the days of Richard M. Nixon has the White House been in the hands of such dishonorable people.
Kenneth J. Kahn
Long Beach, N.Y., July 12, 2005