More Trouble for Rove in CIA Leak Case?

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Rove is a traitor to America...... Nothing short of treason ..............

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'Newsweek' Says It Has First Word on What Karl Rove Told Matt Cooper

By E&P Staff

Published: July 10, 2005 5:30 PM ET

NEW YORK The first break in the case of what Karl Rove actually told Time magazine's Matt Cooper two years ago about Valerie Plame, if anything, appeared Sunday with a report in Newsweek by Michael Isikoff. He revealed the contents of an e-mail from Cooper to his bureau chief Michael Duffy on the morning of July 11, 2003, three days before columnist Robert Novak infamously outed Plame, the CIA operative.

"Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ...." Cooper typed. According to Isikoff, the e-mail describes Cooper's brief conversation with Rove, in which the reporter asked what to make of the controversy over former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's criticisms in an op ed piece about the Bush administration overstating the Saddam-nuclear link. (The e-mail was "authenticated by a source intimately familiar with Time's editorial handling of the Wilson story," Isikoff writes.)

Cooper wrote, according to Newsweek, that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson," whose trip to Africa to study the nuclear link was at the center of the dispute. Rove told Cooper that, surprisingly, it was "wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd issues who authorized the trip." Wilson's wife, of course, is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA. Rove in the e-mail then went on to call Wilson's trip to Africa and his report flawed.

But Isikoff adds: "Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's [actual] name or knew she was a covert operative. Nonetheless, it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, before Plame's identity had been published. [Speical Prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald has been looking for evidence that Rove spoke to other reporters as well."

A source close to Rove, who declined to be identified, told Isikoff that there was "absolutely no inconsistency" between Cooper's e-mail and what Rove has testified to during his three grand-jury appearances in the case.

Rove's words on the Plame case have always been carefully chosen, Isikoff notes. "I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name," Rove told CNN last year when asked if he had anything to do with the Plame leak.

Time magazine, meanwhile, on its Web site Sunday, wrote: "And who was Cooper's source? A number of news organizations named Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser. Time's editors have decided not to reveal the source at this time."

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Rove is a traitor to America...... Nothing short of treason ..............

Just like every other player in this criminal junta.

And, like the rest of 'em, he'll probably walk away from this entire investigation Scott free.

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He needs to go to jail. The is 1000X worse then doing "it" with an intern. Where is Congress now??? Where is the SA??? This is treason, and could have gotten people killed and hurt intellegence assets.

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The is 1000X worse then doing "it" with an intern. Where is Congress now??? Where is the SA???

Better yet, where is the "liberal" media?

I guess it's not a story unless it involves Clinton's wiener, huh?

This is treason, and could have gotten people killed and hurt intellegence assets.

The irony is, Plame was working on WMD counterproliferation.

So this Karl Rove POS not only compromised our national security, he ruined years of work in that area in one fell swoop - all for political reasons.

And these jerkoffs claim to be fighting (and winning) a "war on terror?"

Unreal!

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I know why Errand stayed away from this thread ........He couldnt even defend this ....

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I know why Errand stayed away from this thread ........He couldnt even defend this ....

Defend what, if Rowe did it he needs to go to jail. This is not about politics it about the law and national security. If anyone hasn't figured it out I'm really really pissed about this.

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I know why Errand stayed away from this thread ........He couldnt even defend this ....

I'm surprised he hasn't responded with his generic "you guys just hate America and rejoice whenever one of our troops gets killed" vile crap.

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I'm surprised he hasn't responded with his generic "you guys just hate America and rejoice whenever one of our troops gets killed" vile crap.
;D ......somthing like this ........ You liberal Clowns hate America , you want Rove to get in trouble , for defending America ,yadda,yadda,yadda, troops dying you celebrate , yadda, yadda,yadda....Bush is god yadda,yadda,yadda , Clinton got a blow job ,you bastard hippies . paraphrasing here of course ;D

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Bump...

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"There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there's leaks out of my Administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of."

Note the little "if the person has violated the law" escape clause.

In other words, "if it's discovered that someone in my administration leaked the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative for political payback and jeopordized national security and WMD antiproliferation efforts but no law has been broken, then that person gets a pass, and, what the hell, a promotion!"

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White House Says Rove Retains Bush's Backing After CIA Leak. If you lie, cheat, steal or otherwise break the law, you've always got a job with George.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=awNg9bJB5JFU&refer=us