Oh, Matt Cooper!!... nevermind...
Yeah! I really believe anything the Slimes says.
If this is so, I'll bet Rove has lawyers who can show that he did not violate the law.
WHO CARES? Wait, I forgot the DU.
Brit Hume talked about this yesterday. He said that Karl Rove had signed a release "before" so he (Hume) didn't think that the one that had just been signed would have been from Rove. It was speculation on Brit's part, but he made sense. This article doesn't contradict Brit's observation.
Rove isn't an elected official. If he is guilty of this crime, he can resign, and I just don't see much long-term damage being done.
Maybe Rove did, maybe not. I really don't care either way.
The real problem for the NY Slimes is that they have no credibility.
Does Rove confirm or deny?
That's the acid test.
The basic story line the media has been trying to sell is this: In retaliation for Wilson's column in the NYT, the Bush administration decided to "punish" Wilson by "outing" his wife, either to endanger her or to somehow embarrass or discredit Wilson. As for the second option, it has never been clear to me how "outing" Plame would embarrass or discredit Wilson; it is a non sequitor. As for the former, that they would deliberately try to get Plame harmed, that seems the stuff of wild-eyed conspiracy theorists who watch too much TV. Moreover, Plame's identity as a CIA employee was already known to many in Washington prior to Novak's column. So, to me, the basic premise of this whole thing has never made much sense; it's just a desperate media attempt to create another Watergate.
This has been common knowledge for several days. Everyone knows that Karl Rove gave the interview and also gave a waiver. The prosecutor's office stated clearly yesterday that Karl Rove IS NOT the target of the investigation.
With every edition they publish, the New York Times continues to prove exactly *WHY*, on the morning of September 11th, al Qaeda never considered crashing one of those airliners into the NYT building.
After all, why would you wish to harm your ALLIES?!?
Yeah, this Plame B would have stopped the London attack if she hadn't been outted. Time for some prospective on what is important and what isn't.
"a" source vs "THE" source.
A direct question and cross examination of the named source would reveal if the Time reporter is lying.
If he is lying then it is perjury.
Somehow I think Rove himself is not the source. However Time magazine has now fed decades of conspiracy theory fires for the left.
Fabricated stories are not new to la-la land. I wouldn't be surprised that "sources" are fabricated too. This could account for all the blah-blah-blah, they don't want to admit it to a court and risk a much larger penalty.
___jason blair did it___The NY Times SO wants this to be Karl Rove!!
I personally believe that Wilson himself is the source. He had motive and means and a reliably docile press corps that has "scruples" against pushing a Bush opponent too hard.
So what, exactly, are a CIA secret agent and her low-level diplomat husband doing hanging out with Hollywood entertainment types?