Rove E-Mailed Security Official About Talk

AP ^ | 07/15/05 | JOHN SOLOMON

[wildcatf4f3]

You'd think the Dems would like him since he spells his name with a K.

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The real solution to all this mess is to quit talking to reporters! When will we learn that they are NOT our friends.

D I T T O !!

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bttt

[jennyp]

In the game of poker, when one player (in this case, the America-haters) chooses to bluff, the wise opponent (in this case Dubya) doesn't offer a molecules worth of positive or negative interest.

The whole idea is to get the bluffer to commit more and more resources (in this case credibility for MSM and Dem candidates for the midterms).

I dunno. At this point the Dems seem to be in for a penny, in for a pound. I wonder if the administration should start putting out the meme that "oh my god, if Karl Rove goes down, the President's Supreme Court picks will be DOA! It'll be total lame-duck time. All of his initiatives will be DOA. I really wonder who it was who leaked her name. It had better not be Rove or someone from the administration..."

Of course, now that the Dems' story is already starting to implode, maybe it's too late for such subtlety. Maybe when the final hammer is put down - the definitive revelation on just who it was who revealed Plame's status (ahem Wilson.)- Bush should go on TV and angrily denounce the person. Then, the next day, he calmly announces his SC pick.

[claudiustg]

Which Dim looks the stupidest? I vote for Chuckie Schumer. The way he just panders and lies straight to your face like it's as natural as breathing, is just grotesque. I think this time he passed into true humor. He's almost a parody slimy, lying politician.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

When strong, appear weak or disinterested, when weak (read dems and MSM) act strong, if raised and when in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

[KeyWest]

One thing that is waiting to come out is that Novak cleared the story with the CIA to make sure he was not outing an agent. Saw one mention of this but nothing since.

[randita]

After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview and said he tried to steer the journalist away from allegations the operative's husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.

The Dems will claim it's a crime that Rove communicated this info to a Security Advisor.

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bumperoonie!!

[FReethesheeples]

Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's cover?

It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.

Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:

He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.

Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.

Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.

I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.

However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair. (Or was it Vogue? No, probably too crass for Vogue, n'est pas?)