Posted on 07/17/2005 11:59:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
In more evidence that the effort to blame Karl Rove for "outing an undercover CIA agent" was coming unraveled, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee retracted her claim on Sunday that she knew Rove obtained the agent's name from government sources.
Asked about a letter she sent the White House demanding that Rove's security clearance be suspended, Rep. Jane Harman first insisted she was certain that the top Bush's aide's source was someone in the administration.
"There's no other way that he would know [Plame's name]," Harman argued to "Fox News Sunday's" Brit Hume.
The California Democrat theorized that there was a "gossip pool in the White House emailing each other and chatting it up." She then charged that Rove was "marketing the facts" to reporters Matthew Cooper and Robert Novak.
Hume noted, however, that according to published reports on Friday, Rove "heard about the information from reporters" - and not Bush administration colleagues.
He challenged Harman: "How do you know that's not true?"
The top House Intelligence Committee Democrat began furiously backpedaling:
"Well, I can't know absolutely that it's not true," Harman confessed, before protesting, "But it's a circle - the reporters got it from somewhere."
I missed seeing how the senators voted on the bill. Do you know if hillary voted for it or did she not show up? Who else voted yes?
What's the old expression? "You can s### and fall back in it". Well, you took the dump, so start falling back in it, Dimmies!
LOL!
You could be right that it's the Hillary stink, i.e., Hillaroma.
I think that you're exactly right.
Yeah, here we have a woman who was outed by Aldrich Ames, the hero the left, and who sat around Langely for years and all of sudden she is important!
How much money has this dynamic duo made from this nonsense?
Socialists always seem to take capitalists to the cleaners!
Only if you brought enough for everyone.
I just checked the vote and Hillary voted "Aye"!!!!
All of the dems voted "AYE"!!!
Like lemmings...over that cliff!
they are bailing because the employer of cooper's wife is on the verge of being exposed to the main stream viewing audience.
Cooper is just testified and gave interview for time, has a wife who apparently works for Hilary Clinton.
(false testimony to grand jury? a clinton involved?)
I think everyone knows where this is coming from.
Maybe she WAS covert, just not covert for the US. Maybe she's undercover for Saddam or some other foreign power. We know she wasn't a US covert agent, but the dems keep insisting she WAS covert. Maybe we should find out just what country she was working for as a covert agent.
She doesn't want the bad publicity that could indirectly reflect on her husband's sound and speaker making firm, Harman International Inc.(Harman-Kardon)
If true,this is one of the most damning facts to come to light so far in this farce of an investigation.
Yeah, it's a circle and he suddenly found himself the pivot man ... not a good place to be!
A CIA spokesman steps in front of a microphone and says "Valerie Plame was an undercover agent at the time of the Novak column" or "Valerie Plame was not an undercover agent at the time of the Novak column."
Saying one or the other would compromise nothing, because it's all academic now.
And it would answer a lot of questions.
Granted, someone who drives to work at CIA HQ every morning isn't covert to my way of thinking, but without this simple statment, the David Corns of this world keep chattering away.
A one-sentence statement like that would clear up so much of this.
Actually, they don't have to bring him down to have an effect. An administration only has so many man-hours to advance it's agenda. Rove, himself, only has so many. The rats have successfully made Bush and Rove waste a whole bunch of time on this instead of the WOT, getting ready for the supreme court confirmation battle, reorienting its immigration strategy and so forth. Plus, a small bonus for them is that some independents will decide that Bush has been dishonest because they don't bother to understand what really happened and only read the Old Media headlines.
Net net, this has advanced the left wing agenda and slowed down ours. Look at all the energy expended on FR, Rush, Hannity etc just putting this stupid non-story back in the bottle.
"Cooper is just testified and gave interview for time, has a wife who apparently works for Hilary Clinton." LTM
Where did you get this info from? Whats your source?
She doesn't want the bad publicity that could indirectly reflect on her husband's sound and speaker making firm, Harman International Inc.(Harman-Kardon)
Hmmm, I didn't know that. Thanks for the factoid.
So did Eddie Haskell when talking to Mr. or Mrs. Cleaver.
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