Doesn't "rise to the level". Everybody does it. Let's Move On. Let's get back to the work of the American people. Etc. etc. etc.
-Dan
Posted on 07/14/2005 8:27:58 PM PDT by freedrudge
Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
WASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said Thursday. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Graphic The White House on the Leak Related White House Quotes on the C.I.A. Leak Case (July 11, 2005) At Leak Inquiry's Center, a Circumspect Columnist (Dec. 31, 2004)
Wilson: What I Didn't Find in Africa (July 6, 2003)
Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer, who was referred to by her maiden name, Valerie Plame, and the circumstances in which her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, traveled to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq, the person said.
After hearing Mr. Novak's account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist: "I heard that, too."
The previously undisclosed telephone conversation, which took place on July 8, 2003, was initiated by Mr. Novak, the person who has been briefed on the matter said.
Six days later, Mr. Novak's syndicated column reported that two senior administration officials had told him that Mr. Wilson's "wife had suggested sending him" to Africa. That column was the first instance in which Ms. Wilson was publicly identified as a C.I.A. operative. The column provoked angry demands for an investigation into who disclosed Ms. Wilson's name to Mr. Novak.
The Justice Department appointed Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a top federal prosecutor in Chicago, to lead the inquiry. Mr. Rove said in an interview last year that he did not know the C.I.A. officer's name and did no
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not much here
I guess everyone who does anything for the cia is now a "cia operative".
Hey, you, scrubbing the floors at langley...you're now a gen-u-ine CIA operative!
"someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said Thursday..."
Sounds like Bush has a rat working for him. Either that, of the SP has someone with low ethical standards. That's probably the most likely, I guess. Or maybe a juror.
Is this all they've got? Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Some scoop!!!!
Well, gosh, that settles it!
I'd like to be in on discussions between Times management and stockholders right about now!
More and more junk being written about. I wonder if they taped Karl going to the bathroom too?
-Dan
So when does the investigation start on who leaked grand jury testimony to the New York Times????
"After hearing Mr. Novak's account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist: "I heard that, too."
Interesting NYTimes got this leak.
If true, this would make Rove Novak's leak # 2. Novak said this "official" said, "Oh, you know about that."
So, who is Novak's leak # 1?
How does Novak or the NYT get Rove being a source for Novak when Novak called Rove and told Rove about Plame? Because Rove said he'd heard the same rumor?
LOL.
Judy...Judy...Judy!
This article vindicates Rove.
Rove had a conversation with somebody and he said something.
This is a non-story that has only come to demonstrate to all the world the close links between the MSM and the Dims.
Yep, as has the other information which has come out so far.
So, Novak was Roves's source, not the other way round!
How will the Psychiatric Wing of rhe Dems spin this twist?
Was this briefing conducted at double secret cosmic background level beta-sub-3?
(steely)
"Asked by investigators how he knew enough to leave Mr. Novak with the impression that his information was accurate, Mr. Rove said he heard portions of the story from other journalists, but had not heard Ms. Wilson's name."
and it goes back to Judith Miller again, who were the other journalists talking about this?
"but had not heard Ms. Wilson's name."
Novak used the name "Plame" he found in Who's Who in America. He mentioned the book in his October 1, 2003 explanatory article. Listed is her maiden name.
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