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Jane Harman Backtracks on Rove Allegation --Bailing
NewsMax ^ | 7/17/05 | Limbacher

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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backpedal; bushhaters; cialeak; dirtyrats; filthyrats; fns; janeharman; news; rats; sorelosers; wilsonleakedplame
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To: Txsleuth

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?


21 posted on 07/17/2005 12:16:53 PM PDT by tarzantheapeman (Democrats - Has Osama sent in his talking points yet?)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I am so sure that the dead wood in the Bush White house set around most of their day chatting it up around the scuttlebutt and e-mailing each other the latest poop on everyone.

Back to the secretarial pool with you.
22 posted on 07/17/2005 12:17:18 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Its only funny till someone gets hurt, Then its HILARIOUS.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

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!


23 posted on 07/17/2005 12:18:22 PM PDT by LRS
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To: bill1952

LOL!


24 posted on 07/17/2005 12:19:14 PM PDT by kayak (Have you prayed for your President today?)
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To: Txsleuth

You could be right that it's the Hillary stink, i.e., Hillaroma.


25 posted on 07/17/2005 12:19:29 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: joebuck
And it's becoming increasingly obvious that "somewhere" is Wilson himself. I'd be willing to bet a Franklin that the journalist Miller went to jail to avoid disclosing that Wilson was her source.

I think that you're exactly right.

26 posted on 07/17/2005 12:19:41 PM PDT by elbucko (deranged laughter)
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To: Delta 21

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!


27 posted on 07/17/2005 12:21:04 PM PDT by Prost1 (New AG, Berger is still free, copped a plea! I still get my news from FR!)
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To: Originalist

Only if you brought enough for everyone.


28 posted on 07/17/2005 12:21:30 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Better a thousand Lawyers drive Fords, than one innocent person pay for their BMW .)
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To: tarzantheapeman

I just checked the vote and Hillary voted "Aye"!!!!

All of the dems voted "AYE"!!!

Like lemmings...over that cliff!


29 posted on 07/17/2005 12:22:00 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

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?)


30 posted on 07/17/2005 12:23:17 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Txsleuth
Well, whoever is pulling the strings on this is about to cause a major train wreck of monumental proportions. I think it's Clinton behind this as well, in his mind, he's just doing to the Bush what the republicans did to him. Of course, he doesn't realize that the Bush administration is not the sleazy group of people that he had, and Bush didn't lie under oath (although that's why the dems have been running around accusing Bush of lying because Clinton thinks history will show everyone does it).

I think everyone knows where this is coming from.

31 posted on 07/17/2005 12:25:07 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Burlem
She has not traveled out of the country for 5 years so she is sitting at a desk? Im sorry I just don't get the story

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.

32 posted on 07/17/2005 12:27:30 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: snarks_when_bored
Harman occasionally appears to be sensible when she appears on Fox News. Too bad it's just appearance.

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)

33 posted on 07/17/2005 12:29:22 PM PDT by tertiary01 (It took 21 years but 1984 finally arrived.)
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To: longtermmemmory

If true,this is one of the most damning facts to come to light so far in this farce of an investigation.


34 posted on 07/17/2005 12:31:29 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Yeah, it's a circle and he suddenly found himself the pivot man ... not a good place to be!


35 posted on 07/17/2005 12:32:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Iraq is the bug light for terrorists" (Mike McConnell 7/2/05))
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To: Burlem
I've been reading everything I can on this laughable "scandal," and no one has given me a simple answer as to why the following cannot happen or hasn't happened:

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.

36 posted on 07/17/2005 12:32:21 PM PDT by Dr.Hilarious ("My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."-Joe W)
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To: Theresawithanh
I don't know why it's an issue either, except the dems grasping at straws to bring down their nemesis, Karl Rove.

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.

37 posted on 07/17/2005 12:32:37 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: longtermmemmory

"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?


38 posted on 07/17/2005 12:33:46 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: tertiary01
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.

39 posted on 07/17/2005 12:34:27 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
Harman occasionally appears to be sensible when she appears on Fox News.

So did Eddie Haskell when talking to Mr. or Mrs. Cleaver.

40 posted on 07/17/2005 12:36:09 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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