[woofie]

It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and Rove.

[rface]

hmmmmm -- well it looks like Rove is involved somehow. There will be many twists to this story.

[balch3]

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.

[HarryCaul]

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.

[Henchster]

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?

[byteback]

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.

[John Jorsett]

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.

[West Coast Conservative]

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.

[concerned about politics]

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!

[NathanBookman]

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.

[Bahbah]

The leak to Novak, apparently intended to discredit Wilson's mission, caused a furor when it turned out that Plame was an undercover agent. It is a crime to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover CIA official.Was an undercover agent, or had been. I think it's pretty clear, under the terms of the applicable law, that no crime was ever committed. This account says Rove talked to Cooper after the appearance of Novak's story when everybody knew who and what Plame was (and many may have know it before). Then Isikoff goes on to say that Rove had talked to Cooper before the Novak article appeared. What he does NOT say is if it was in the earlier interview that Rove made a remark about Plame and it does not appear that it was. And if it was, then why did Novak break the story and not Cooper?

[Checkers]

"The Rove Factor?"

Shouldn't it be "The O'Rove Factor"?
Complete with "Talking Points" amd "Most Ridiculous Item of the Day" segments?

Name and town, name and town, name and town...!

[Uncle Hal]

Folks I do not like the sound of this. If Rove is somehow en voled, this can only be bad news for Bush. None of this makes any sense. Hopefully it will be sorted out quickly and no one at the White House is implicated.

[GOP_Proud]

Didn't we already know that Rove had been interviewed?

[laishly]

Rove is not stupid. He did not do anything wrong.

Meanwhile, I wonder how the idiots at DU are reacting. They are probably salivating over the prospect that Evil Genius Rove is going to be slammed! When it doesn't happen, they will interpret that as evidence of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy at work!

[TUX]

Since the Watergate slime-balls took down a sitting president the media swine, and government socialist, with an agenda are seeking the money, and notoriety, that could come with a encore.

Sick to imagine the destructive bent of the fifth column.

[OldFriend]

O'Donnell off his meds again.

[citizencon]

Isikoff has the credibility of a cashier caught stealing from the till, but allowed to keep his job.
O'Donnell lost his credibility when he lost "it" in front of America.

[advance_copy]

one of Cooper's sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, according to two lawyers who asked not to be identified

As predicted, more falsehoods from Newsweek "anonymous sources". The Time Magazine notes and e-mails are sealed grand jury evidence. No one will be charged (except Cooper and Miller for contempt) because no crime has been committed. So the real content of the notes and e-mails will never be revealed. That means that "creepy liars" in the MSM can accuse Karl Rove all day long. They're such a bunch of low-life pinheads.

[sandydipper]

Quick - we need Sandy Berger to retrive those nasty eMails.