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Bush aide Rove was Time reporter's source-Newsweek
Boston Glob ^ | July 10, 2005 | Reuters

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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To: bitt

"'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?


201 posted on 07/11/2005 4:01:55 PM PDT by Wristpin ( Varitek says to A-Rod: "We don't throw at .260 hitters.....")
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To: Snidely Whiplash
I've read in various sources that Wilson was a Republican prior to this whole mess - what gives? And as I understand it, he was given his job originally by Bush Sr. GHWB wasn't in the habit of giving full-on Democrats significant jobs, was he?

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

202 posted on 07/11/2005 6:02:00 PM PDT by Edit35
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To: devolve

Thanks for the ping!


203 posted on 07/11/2005 8:19:22 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Lazamataz
"This little twerp deserves it. ;^)"

You are sexy when you are angry!!!

204 posted on 07/12/2005 1:14:36 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: bitt

205 posted on 07/12/2005 1:17:01 PM PDT by woofie (Neocon spelled backward is Nocoen)
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To: bitt

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.


206 posted on 07/12/2005 1:19:50 PM PDT by Casloy
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To: devolve

LOL!

I love how your little guy falls down,
and doesn't get up.

Yellow-kook bump!


207 posted on 07/12/2005 3:28:07 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Alamo-Girl; ...


Yeller-Journalism - Yeller-Cake

 


I smell cake..... Yeller-Cake or Yeller-Kook?


  
     

208 posted on 07/12/2005 6:48:23 PM PDT by devolve (-------------------------------------------------)
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To: bitt
Does anyone here remember that Valerie Plame made a contribution to Al Gore's campaign in 2000 giving not only her name but the name of her CIA front company where she claimed she worked?
Why in the hell are active CIA officers even allowed to make campaign contributions are active duty military allowed????
This woman is too obvious and dumb to be a covert spy or any other kind of spy especially if she got her husband to be named to that Niger mission.
Also it came out I think in Wilson's own book that about the second time they slept together she told him she worked for the CIA. Is this woman that easy for the bedroom and that anxious to give away secrets?
She has absolutely no business being in the CIA or any sensitive intelligence post whatsoever.
209 posted on 07/12/2005 6:57:08 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Wristpin

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.


210 posted on 07/12/2005 6:57:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: devolve

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!


211 posted on 07/12/2005 7:30:24 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: devolve

Thanks for the ping!


212 posted on 07/12/2005 7:37:01 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Captain Peter Blood

"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.


213 posted on 07/13/2005 5:47:38 AM PDT by Wristpin ( Varitek says to A-Rod: "We don't throw at .260 hitters.....")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

unfortunately, BigSigh doesn't want to read what our lovely Ann Coulter has to say regarding the facts.....


214 posted on 07/13/2005 5:51:49 AM PDT by smiley
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To: bigsigh

Out on parole I see. lol


215 posted on 07/13/2005 5:58:32 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (My tagline snapped the last time the MSM blew smoke up my ass. Now its gone forever.)
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To: TheForceOfOne

apparently it's lifetime.


216 posted on 07/13/2005 9:36:49 PM PDT by bigsigh
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To: bitt

The first paragraph starts with a lie...Valerie Plame WAS NOT A COVERT CIA AGENT!

Period. Checkmate. Over. Done.


217 posted on 07/13/2005 9:38:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Right now I can't decide which political party is trying to commit suicide faster)
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