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 ...
James Carville?
ROFLMAO........ STILL ROFLMAO, and what is his level of comprehension? :-)
If you say someone's wife is a CIA employee...she could be the cleaning lady...work in the mail room...answer the phone.
Or they could work here.
From the Time article it appears to me Rove was merely talking on background.
The MSM should just have cut out the middleman and made the lie say that Bush himself revealed it.
Mr. Rove said he didn't know her name nor that she was an undercover agent. Apparently it wasn't a secret to a number of the Washington set that she had been undercover at some point, so it's just a waste of time and money about nothing. What did he have to gain by deliberately giving away her agent status if he had known it?
The important point was that she, a Bush-hater, got her Bush-hating husband a job that was used to call the Commander-in-Chief a liar during a time of war, when Saddam's search for yellow cake was verified by others. Or have we all forgotten the real issue because of this obvious red herring?
Bad, bad news for Karl Rove.
"Rove should resign."
I agree.
I always thought it was him the source.
Whether he resigns or not he's in deep trouble. I hope the President has his name in the immunity list because he's gonna be spending many years in prison.
Yeah. He'll probably write a book and make millions, too. LOL. The liberal press stuck it to themselves again! They just keep trying, burning, trying ,and burning. This is great!
ABC NEWS tonight: "that it's quite clear that Rove has broken no laws and done nothing illegal."
(Thanks, mikenash)
Next they'll be claiming Rove burned the Koran at Gitmo!
LOL, good catch!!!!!!
BTW I'll just take a plain old pizza burger w/ fries, lil extra sauce on the side,dont forget the pickle, please. Bet they don't have a pizza burger recipe at the CIA.
"If there was any doubt about hamburger's position as an American classic, the 1993 publication of Marcel Desaulniers' cookbook Burger Meisters should have put those doubts to rest. The book — now in its second printing — includes 144 pages of burger recipes written by 45 graduates of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA)."
I'd read the law before I jumped to conclusions. It's tough to break that one. There's a lot more to it than just "being a source". LOL
some of the quotes here are either libel or damning of rove.
" But last week, his lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed to NEWSWEEK that Rove did—and that Rove was the secret source who, at the request of both Cooper's lawyer and the prosecutor, gave Cooper permission to testify."
from a newsweak article...
will the freepers who claimed rove innocence beyond all else agree that either he did it OR newsweak is toast for libel?
What did he do?
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