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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 ...
As if newsweek can be relied upon to tell the truth.
You know the rules. Where are the photos?!
For cryin out loud THERE NEVER WAS A CRIME COMMITTED HERE!!! Plame was not undercover, Rove never named her, Cooper CALLED ROVE, not visaversa...........you, and Taquinas, have been played like a banjo by the MSM.
They have no credibility.
In a brief conversation with Rove, Cooper asked what to make of the flap over Wilson's criticisms. NEWSWEEK obtained a copy of the e-mail that Cooper sent his bureau chief after speaking to Rove...
Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip."
Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative.
bull. they would have charged him by now if they were going to.
i never said there was a crime committed, please cite where i did?
allegedly broke plume's cover. who knows if he did, he only says he didn't 'name' her.
he apparently was talking in this time frame, though.
Didn't she wear a scarf in her convertible, though?? Hmm?
Misleading title, the article doesn't really say that.
"If you say someone's wife is a CIA employee, you are identifying that person. Do you not know the definition of is either?"
I think it is if your wife is an "under cover" CIA employee you are identifying that person.
I don't know much about the case, but I understand it is the CIA's responsibility to keep undercover operatives secret.
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Look, Hillary bigsigh, don't you know We, The People are on to the MSM's game? Parsing, interpreting, preaching, romanticizing, semanticizing, embellishing and fabricating (aka lying) are still not enough to stop the truth. Just because 'they' print or say "this is what happened; this is how it went down" doesn't mean we will automatically believe it to be fact.
Conservative Americans are a rebellious sort. Grit. Gumption. Pioneering, revolutionary spirit. They don't take oppression lightly, and will not let an attempt at a media coup stop them from fighting for full freedom. The media want the First Amendment to defend them? Truth is its own protection; one can't put on armor made of lies and expect to stand firm against its power.
Next time, when you come back from another banishment, use the screen name 'you know' so we'll know it's you, okay?
It is not illegal in identify someone as a CIA employee. Hell, 1/2 of Northern VA would be in jail. A CIA employee will tell you he/she works there. No big deal. Identifying someone as an operative is different.
Apples and Oranges. But that is not what MSM wants us to think.
Okay. I will.
will the freepers who claimed rove innocence beyond all else agree that either he did it OR newsweak is toast for libel?
You implied there was a crime by your statement doubting Rove's 'innocence' and whether or not he 'did it'. Is the problem with your ability to communicate your thoughts or is it our comprehension of them?
I'll be expecting resignations soon, and jail sentences following. /sarcasm
I think I get the "yellow cake" connection now. :-)
The dems are like sharks in a feeding frenzy. MSM is on the docks throwing crumbs. Dems are so far gone, they think they are getting red meat.
When presented with the memo from his wife recommending him for the job, Wilson said only that his wife was not the one who made the decision to send him to Niger. This cleared up the matter for anyone who had been under the impression Wilson was married to George Tenet.
As an aside, I note that the main point of the Senate report was to slam the agency for its Mickey Mouse intelligence gathering on weapons of mass destruction. Guess what Wilson's wife does at the CIA? That's right! She gathers intelligence on weapons of mass destruction! No wonder she claims to be "undercover." Her fantasist husband calls the incompetent CIA paper-pusher "Jane Bond." (I'm an astronaut!)
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