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The press is now going crazy on the Rove thing. The article above has links to some other press takes on this. One link is an online chat with WaPo's Howard Kurtz: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/07/07/DI2005070701459.html

I still don't see the big deal. A reporter called Rove. At the end of the call the Wilson thing comes up. Rove gives his two cents on the true sponsor of the trip. Mentioning a CIA agent in and of itself is not a crime. Many criteria must be met.

1 posted on 07/11/2005 12:26:47 PM PDT by NathanBookman
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The press is now going crazy on the Rove thi

They are going crazy on this because DUers and Move-On Leftist have blasted every article they could find to the media so they would not forget about it and had to finally react! The Leftists were sooo pissed that the London Bombings occurred to take the story away from the Rover/Plame story that while we were worried about the London bombings they were blasting Rove Rove Rove and more Rove to all the media outlets!

2 posted on 07/11/2005 12:32:21 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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The MSM are freaking over this story because their past months' defense of these reporters is that there was no crime.

They seem to be saying it's a crime to "whistle blow" perceived wrongs by government personel, but only those who blow the whistle on "conservative" bad guys get TIME covers and praise.

Reporters come to information by many ways and they are the ones who decide what gets printed. Therein lies the responsibility--Plame wouldn't have been "outted" (if she was) if only the reporter kept his mouth shut; ditto with Novak.

But it's truly hilarious--not amusing, hilarious--to see these reporters, who, since Watergate, have been defending the whistleblowing tradition, now screaming "Save us from ourselves! Don't spill secrets to us!"

3 posted on 07/11/2005 12:33:00 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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It must be July if we are dealing with things this stupid.

The Donks want Rove so bad they can just taste it. The Clintonistas can sell the entire country to the ChiComs and they don't give a damn. But if Karl Rove mispoke while giving a backgrounder, it's the crime of the century


5 posted on 07/11/2005 12:37:36 PM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES!!)
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Remember when Kerry stated the name of a real CIA covert agent during the hearings over John Bolton?

The MSM wasn't interested in that, I wonder why ?

sarcasm off !!!!!!!!


7 posted on 07/11/2005 12:38:14 PM PDT by federal
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It's nice to see the press corp being as diligent about ROve as they were about Clinton's and the FBI files.
/scarcasm


9 posted on 07/11/2005 12:39:40 PM PDT by Leto
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I agree that Rove didn't commit a crime. Then why lie about to the press afterwards? Why is there an investigation now? If Rove didn't do anything wrong, why did he lie all this time and NOW it comes out that it was him all along?

If Rove was a Democrat, everyone here would be demanding his resignaton.

10 posted on 07/11/2005 12:42:01 PM PDT by conserv13
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* Has Karl Rove routinely hidden behind confidentiality to spread damaging information about the White House's enemies?

No.

That was someone else in another Administration.

26 posted on 07/11/2005 1:13:07 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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The last I heard she was NOT a CIA agent but merely an analyse.


39 posted on 07/11/2005 4:10:39 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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I just can't seem to care about this story. It strikes me as another in a long line of mountains out of molehills the press builds to make Bush look bad. Yawn...


42 posted on 07/11/2005 6:33:36 PM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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