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OTOH, it offers this:
caption this contest:
"Rule No. 1 of clubbing: Always bring an ugly person with you so you look more attractive."
Posted on 07/10/2005 9:12:14 PM PDT by bitt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House advisor Karl Rove was one of the secret sources that spoke to reporters about a covert CIA operative whose identity was leaked to the media, Newsweek magazine reported in its latest edition.
The magazine said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove talked to Time magazine about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Luskin said Rove recently gave Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper permission to testify about the conversation to a grand jury investigating the leak in 2003, according to Newsweek.
A U.S. federal judge ordered Cooper, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, to testify and reveal their confidential sources.
Last week Cooper avoided a jail sentence for contempt of court by agreeing to testify in the case. Miller refused to testify and was jailed.
The case has become an important test involving freedom of the press and has pitting the media's traditional use of anonymous sources against the efforts of a federal government prosecutor to investigate a possible crime.
It is illegal to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent.
Although Rove has made statements about the Plame leak, he has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about the CIA agent.
Rove has carefully chosen his words when questioned about the leak. "I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name," he told CNN last year when asked if he had had anything to do with it.
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I love how they SAY it was Rove, but you read the 1st graph and it's "was ONE of the secret sources". Hey NYT, could it have been one of the OTHER sources? Geesh.
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OTOH, it offers this:
caption this contest:
"Rule No. 1 of clubbing: Always bring an ugly person with you so you look more attractive."
Make it rain frogs in Los Angeles.
You and I are friends, but you are quite wrong about all of this.
Wipe the snot from your nose and dry behind your ears, and get back to us when you get a year here.
I love you.
I have found it VERY interesting that the lead for all of these stories emphasizes NEWSWEAK as the source - as if that is proof positive of the veracity of their spin. The emails cited are pretty bland, and certainly require a lot of interpretation to impute illegality on Rove's part. (It also seems to require imagining a legal offense that doesn't appear to exist.)
"I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name,"
I agree. Even so, it was not helpful when, Rove's attorney first said Rove wasn't the one who called Cooper to personally release him to testify about their conversations, then last week admit that it was Rove who called Cooper with the OK to testify. But there's still no reason for Rove to resign.
Rove called Cooper and said that it was OK for him to testify about their conversations. There is nothing illegal in that.
If it is true that "Rove called" and not a lawyer or some aide called on behalf of Rove, then it is not true that Rove did not call Cooper. It is also possible that "OK to testify" is not a fair summary of what Rove released Cooper to do.
The headline and the first sentence of the article don't jibe, do they?
Entirely correct. The story say that Rove was one of the sources, not THE SOURCE who outed Plame. But, of course, the headline wants to the leave the impression that he was. Dishonest journalism.
no they don't jibe...typical Glob manipulation - and the story is totally missing from the front page today...
LOL. Quelle suprise :)
Awww...yuh makin me blush, Laz. :o)
Only a loser would end on a post like that. Your responses in this thread were equally bad, picking fights, responding to a few issues raised, but ignoring many other good points. No wonder you were banned multiple times, you contribute nothing to this forum.
Maybe you need an eye exam? I told him to "go away"
Go play in the street.
That's what I'm saying is NOT helpful. I didn't say it was illegal, so I'm not sure how you got that idea from my earlier post. Rove hasn't done anything illegal.
I didn't say you had said something illegal had taken place.
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