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The Rove Factor?
Newsweek ^ | 06/11/05 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 07/02/2005 1:05:55 PM PDT by Pikamax

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1 posted on 07/02/2005 1:05:55 PM PDT by Pikamax
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It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and Rove.
2 posted on 07/02/2005 1:07:41 PM PDT by woofie (An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at)
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hmmmmm -- well it looks like Rove is involved somehow. There will be many twists to this story.


3 posted on 07/02/2005 1:08:58 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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What garbage. It has already been well established on other threads that Rove did nothing wrong. Charaacter assasination, pure and simple. I hope the White House doesn't knuckle under and fights this tooth and nail. And what about those two lawyers leaking information about their clients? They should be investigated and disbarred.


5 posted on 07/02/2005 1:09:58 PM PDT by balch3
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Well, this is the most detail so far, but there's nothing there that says "Rove was the source of the leak".

Not that it can be called a leak, really, but you know.


6 posted on 07/02/2005 1:11:39 PM PDT by HarryCaul
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Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove had been interviewed by Cooper for the article. It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and Rove.

Jeez, the liberal media will clutch at ANYTHING that they can try to pin on Karl Rove.

You can bet every dollar you have that if Karl Rove was the source, Cooper, Miller, and every liberal media entity would be screaming it from the rooftops.

The REAL leaker is a Dem, you can guarantee it. Patrick Leaky?

7 posted on 07/02/2005 1:11:40 PM PDT by Henchster
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My understanding is that Plame was once a covert agent but since her marriage became an above the board agent with a staff job. It's not criminal to speak of a "known" CIA employee.


8 posted on 07/02/2005 1:12:38 PM PDT by byteback
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"Luskin told NEWSWEEK that Rove "never knowingly disclosed classified information" and that "he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA." Luskin declined, however, to discuss any other details. He did say that Rove himself had testified before the grand jury "two or three times" and signed a waiver authorizing reporters to testify about their conversations with him. "He has answered every question that has been put to him about his conversations with Cooper and anybody else," Luskin said."

This appears to absolve Rove of any wrong doing.

9 posted on 07/02/2005 1:12:40 PM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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I would be checking their notes for being word-processed instead of typewritten, for I would not consider them to be above forgery.


10 posted on 07/02/2005 1:12:56 PM PDT by GSlob
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so much for Lawrence O'Donnell "ITS ROVE!!!" scoop.


11 posted on 07/02/2005 1:13:18 PM PDT by Pikamax
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I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Rove has waived any confidentiality and said that reporters can reveal anything that was said between himself and them. It's not exactly an 'aha' moment when the reporters turn over their notes, at least as regards Rove, since he's said they could for a while now.


12 posted on 07/02/2005 1:13:44 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and Rove.

Newsweek launches the S.S. Revenge.

My take is that if they actually had anything on Rove, this would have come out months ago, journo "integrity" aside...
13 posted on 07/02/2005 1:14:05 PM PDT by timpad (The Wizard Tim - Keeper of the Holy Hand Grenade, Finder of Obscurata)
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This is the so-called "IT'S ROVE" scoop by Newsweek O'Donnell was talking about?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This article practically absolves him.

Someone should post this at the DUmp.


14 posted on 07/02/2005 1:15:50 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative (Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.)
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Well, we do have to consider the source.

Next he'll be saying Rove flushed the notes down a toilet.


15 posted on 07/02/2005 1:16:48 PM PDT by HarryCaul
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Michael Isikoff...the same fellow that wrote the "abuse of Koran" stories for Newsweak, resulting in, what was it, 18 deaths? And then had to retract the story....


16 posted on 07/02/2005 1:16:57 PM PDT by sofaman
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In my opinion, it was Mr.Plame who leaked his wife's identity. He was way too eager to repeat the news for the camera, and actually flaunted it. He even had special thanks to his wife, "an agent of the CIA", already printed in the book he was getting ready to release.

There are two very liberal writers willing to go to jail to protect someone - and I doubt they're doing it to protect Karl Rove!

17 posted on 07/02/2005 1:17:11 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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Relax. Rove always admitted to providing information to reporters AFTER the Novak story. There is nothing knew here, except "reporters" like Iskoff (who is guilty of publishing false stories before to attempt to make a name for himself) trying to make something out of nothing. I like the way Iskoff quotes unnamed lawyers who are sympathtic to the White House, however, they have no probably spreading rumors. This will be another Rove conspiracy story that backfires on the libs.


18 posted on 07/02/2005 1:18:15 PM PDT by NathanBookman
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Notes, e-mails whatever. I agree with you.

I wonder when will the reporter answer these questions "under sworn oath" before the GJ. COC is bad, perjury (unless you are a sitting president) is very, very bad!
19 posted on 07/02/2005 1:18:40 PM PDT by lowbuck
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To: Eagles Talon IV
This appears to absolve Rove of any wrong doing.

Yes, it does. The media will, however, attempt to make something of it, just like they've done with everything else.

Beep beep!

20 posted on 07/02/2005 1:19:30 PM PDT by alnick ("I will continue to be guided by the advice that matters." GWB 6/28/05)
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