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 ...
I wouldn't be surprised to find out Wilson himself outed her to get buyers for his then upcoming book. People love scandal!
Bush ignored his Africa report, and Wilson wasn't any too happy to be snubbed by the big guy!
I don't owe allegiance to the RINO party, but you and I both know that this is nothing but classic liberal media/Rat smear tactics.
didn't veritas used to mean truth?
RE: If you say someone's wife is a CIA employee, you are identifying that person. Do you not know the definition of is either?
If you don't know what someone said, and act like you do, then you are fos.
Good night
go away.
I am not referring to the media tatics or the liberals. I am referring to Rove making the comment, which was wrong and maybe illegal and then leting everyone run around like a chicken with their heads cut off and not having the balls to stand up for what he said. You can't pawn this off on other people. He's responsible. They just played it because of what he tried to cover up.
Have fun.
good night boys and girls and remember, my party right or wrong, my party.
You are simply making huge accusation against Karl Rove. He simply did not break any law by saying that Joe Wilson wife worked for the CIA because he did not say she was an undercover agent and he did not know she was an undercover agent. In fact working as an analyst on WMD is not an undercover job.
Cry if you want to.
I will direct anyone who tells me the MSM aren't liberal to this piece and the TIME piece and let them decide who's spinning facts.
Better check under your mattress. Karl Rove might be hiding there.
Rove never said her name, and "Plame" sounds nothing like "Wilson".
Someone else spilled the beans.
I am guessing Rove didn't admit to something he didn't do because he didn't do anything. Refer to the actual TIME story, not the Newsweek spin on it, and you'll find that Rove didn't reveal Plame's status. So what exactly is he supposed to resign for?
He has been banned six times, per his own admission on his about page. He has been on Zot threads defending trolls a number of times and has said we on FR are at the third grade reading level.
Your righteous indignation i.e. bitching is on the record. Now please quote the exact words Rove said that were wrong and illegal and we can actually talk about the meat of the issue.
Your information is incorrect. Rove doesn't need a machine to control the weather. Get with the program... ;-)
The democrats want him to because he's so good at his job? I think that's about the whole story right there.
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