Posted on 07/02/2005 1:05:55 PM PDT by Pikamax
The Rove Factor? Time magazine talked to Bush's guru for Plame story.
By Michael Isikoff Newsweek July 11 issue - Its legal appeals exhausted, Time magazine agreed last week to turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's e-mails and computer notes to a special prosecutor investigating the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity. The case has been the subject of press controversy for two years. Saying "we are not above the law," Time Inc. Editor in Chief Norman Pearlstine decided to comply with a grand-jury subpoena to turn over documents related to the leak. But Cooper (and a New York Times reporter, Judith Miller) is still refusing to testify and faces jail this week.
At issue is the story of a CIA-sponsored trip taken by former ambassador (and White House critic) Joseph Wilson to investigate reports that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from the African country of Niger. "Some government officials have noted to Time in interviews... that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," said Cooper's July 2003 Time online article.
Now the story may be about to take another turn. The e-mails surrendered by Time Inc., which are largely between Cooper and his editors, show that one of Cooper's sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, according to two lawyers who asked not to be identified because they are representing witnesses sympathetic to the White House. Cooper and a Time spokeswoman declined to comment. But in an interview with NEWSWEEK, 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.
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Fair enough...your out of dutch
"..it's 24 hours at DU or the dreaded panties on the head a la Abu Graibh...and I warn you, the panties belonged to Janet Reno..."
Boxers or briefs?
we're being quoted on DU...apparently we're in denial...
From the Boston globe article:
Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, said prosecutors have assured Rove he is not a target of the criminal investigation.
The big question is....do we really want to know? Either way, it's a stomach turner...
O'Donnell off his meds again.
They're now in a panic because the story is already dying.
There's nothing to it but one liberal reporters opinion, like the Downing street memos.
They just keep trying and trying. It must be a bitch to be them.
I think what is remarkable to me is the pure unbridled hate that you see on their threads...really vicious stuff...
Only goes to prove that they are beginning to get the sense that they are destined for the political wilderness for a while...So they desperately hope for some sort of "crime" that will bring down the Bush admin...they're becoming laughable...
even Isikoff is being treated like a leper..O'donnell is the hero LOL.
What will really drive them nuts is when it becomes apparent that this is all secretly a Rove plan, and the evil genius has won again.
In related news, tinfoil futures hit all time high.
Probably Begala himself.
Why are they having concerts today to help the starving?
JUST FEED THEM THE EGG ON LARRY'S FACE!!!
SHOULD LAST 5 YEARS
What a scream! Those guys are going to be soooo upset when the Evil One works his wily ways and escapes unscathed!
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