Posted on 07/10/2005 12:12:27 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.
Last week, after Time turned over that e-mail, among other notes and e-mails, Cooper agreed to testify before a grand jury in the Valerie Plame case. Explaining that he had obtained last-minute "personal consent" from his source, Cooper was able to avoid a jail sentence for contempt of court. Another reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, refused to identify her source and chose to go to jail instead.
For two years, a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been investigating the leak of Plame's identity as an undercover CIA agent. The leak was first reported by columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Novak apparently made some arrangement with the prosecutor, but Fitzgerald continued to press other reporters for their sources, possibly to show a pattern (to prove intent) or to make a perjury case. (It is illegal to knowingly identify an undercover CIA officer.) Rove's words on the Plame case have always been carefully chosen. "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. Rove has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife.
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When we were stationed in Norlin's we took a trip up through some of the Civil War sites in Mississippi. I remember we liked Vicksburg a lot...also the Mobile and that area.
Oh the bad boys and girls are cropping up all over this morning, aren't they? Even camoflauging themselves on other related threads. But what a swift and sure job the moderators are doing. Thanks!!
Yes, I am quite fond of VB. It already feels like home. I know this will sound wierd, but it feels to me like I have returned home. RETURNED home.
We're having a battle against a minor troll attack on this thread....lol. Liberals desperately want to discredit Karl Rove and you can see it here this morning.
LO - I see that. I also saw that JimRpb squashed him...lol.
Lately we've been thinking of moving to Elizabeth City, NC. We were stationed there when both our boys were born. Nice quiet town, protected from Hurricanes by the Outer Banks but near enough to the coast to get there easily, close to the Norfolk area. Nice cost of living. A little sticky in July and August...which you know what I mean or will soon...but not bad overall climate.
Yes, JimRob is very quick at troll target acquisition and removal. His CPU runs at 7.6 ghz, even at 1:40 in the morning.
FOTFLOL! I love that Jim! WTG.
You know, Lawrence O' Delusional, the guy, who just might get fitted with a straight jacket in a few weeks...
Oh, well. There are sure to be more. They remind you of those sheep in turkey.
At this hour of the morning, troll warfare is more of a calm, professional battle with some humorous banter amongst the folks on our side. It's like a special forces raid in the morning darkness rather than 7th Corps blasting three tanks simultaneously in the afternoon sun. But troll warfare at 8 PM on a Wednesday night, now that's a real event.
We need a "double super secret background" zotting capability.
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "Criminal or Just Plain Stupid?", 10/08/2003
As former CIA director James Woolsey points out, the 1982 law that makes it a federal crime to disclose the identify of an undercover CIA agent was carefully written to target witting perpetrators. Congress had in mind actors such as ex-CIA agent turned left-wing critic Philip Agee who, for political reasons, wrote a book outing many of his former colleagues, leading to considerable and justifiable concern about their safety.
Each gives it's own satisfaction. A puff of wispy smoke disappated by a gentle summer breeze or a blinding flash and a mushroom cloud. The result is the same.
Maybe Howard Dean or Hillary...ha.
It's Rove.
Leftists are absolutely OBSESSED with destroying him.
There's been nothing like the Left's hatred for Karl Rove, since they (successfully) brought down Newt Gingrich. That success very strongly rewarded them for the "deliberate attack" tactic, and they've never ever forgotten its power. (didn't hurt that it very nearly worked against Justice Thomas, either)
Liberals now believe if they simply get angry and hysterical enough, they can bring down whomever they target... (Rove, at the moment)
You guys caught in some kind of time warp? It is 2005, please set your clocks appropriately.
She wasn't a covert operative. My understanding is that she was a pencil pusher or bean counter at Langley. And why wasn't anybody at the CIA reprimanded for allowing this woman to get her husband the job?{Potential conflict of interest, appearance of impropriety, etc, etc} Could it be because the Agency bureaucrats were opposed to "W's" policies, were of a like mind with Wilson and the little woman, and didn't want to give "W" any ammo against Saddam?
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