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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"'Valarie Plame should resign for sending her husband to Niger to cook intelligence. She and he are a disgrace.
A pair of glory hounds putting their own stardom ahead of the country.
They belong in the Rosenberg wing of the Traitor's Hall of Fame.'"
The question also remains, were they working for a foriegn government or just the DNC?
As I understand it, Joe Wilson was a mid-level diplomat in 1990, and was elevated to Ambassador of Iraq (during the Kuwait invasion) when a previous Ambassador apparantly resigned. (?)
While he was apparantly approved by Bush 41-GHWB, I don't believe that makes him a "full-on" Republican, as you indicated.
Federal election records indicate Wilson donated big bucks to AlGore during the 2000 election, and to various Democrats since.
Check out this summation by a Wash Times employee, who seems to know many details of the whole sordid affair.
Here is the link: http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2003/031005.html
Thanks for the ping!
You are sexy when you are angry!!!
So much damage from this leak!!! Plame was pictured in Vanity Fair recently. I guess her ability to do her job is really critical to her, since now she can't even travel in alias. This is much ado about absolutely nothing.
LOL!
I love how your little guy falls down,
and doesn't get up.
Yellow-kook bump!
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It would be hard for me to envision Rove blowing an active CIA agent's identity. If he did it, he seriously screwed up.
I could see him talking about 'an anonymous' agent. That would be more believable and is what I believe probably happened. The MSM (never known to have a hard on against (R)s before LOL), wants Rove bad, and will do anything... ANYTHING to get him.
LOL, that New York Times one is something else!!! There is so much going on there that I'm not even going to ask how you did it!
Funny, Kerry is even holding the skull at one point. Yellow fellow and pinko to boot!
Thanks for the ping!
"Why in the hell are active CIA officers even allowed to make campaign contributions are active duty military allowed????"
Active Duty can make campaign contributions just like any other citizen. The limitation on them is showing up at campaign events or political protests in uniform.
unfortunately, BigSigh doesn't want to read what our lovely Ann Coulter has to say regarding the facts.....
Out on parole I see. lol
apparently it's lifetime.
The first paragraph starts with a lie...Valerie Plame WAS NOT A COVERT CIA AGENT!
Period. Checkmate. Over. Done.
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