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To: Fawn
Cooper's own email, which was very mysteriously leaked to Time magazine's bitter rival, Newsweek, said only that Rove mentioned to Cooper that Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife, "who apparently works for the CIA." It's hard to imagine that Cooper would have sent such a non-specific email to his editor if Karl Rove had specifically given him the name of Valerie Plame for the first time.

I did not see Cooper on MTP, but I would like to know, did he say he learned of Plame's NAME from Rove, or her IDENTITY? Perhaps Cooper was not exactly lying, if he said he learned of her "identity" from Rove, if Rove was indeed the first person who told him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. But clearly he is intending to confuse the public in order to take the heat off his own false and libelous story he ran after speaking to Rove, when he wrote about a nefarious coordinated effort by the White House to get revenge on Joe Wilson by outing his wife.

28 posted on 07/17/2005 10:15:12 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (If the WMD intelligence was so bad, why does Valerie Plame still have a job?)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Perhaps Cooper was not exactly lying, if he said he learned of her "identity" from Rove, if Rove was indeed the first person who told him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.

Not exactly lying? I work for Delta Airlines. Did I just give you my identity? Cooper flat-out lied.

31 posted on 07/17/2005 10:17:43 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

That's similar to what was going on with Wilson's editorial comments: Administration said that Iraq was seeking Yellowcake...Wilson said they were lying because his trip showed that Niger wasn't selling them any - not that Wilson's comments didn't fall apart anyways, but fundementally these two statements aren't in opposition.


71 posted on 07/17/2005 10:57:21 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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