Knifing Rove, whitewashing Wilson-Plame

The Washington Time ^ | 7/19/05 | Editorial

[NathanBookman]

What is known thus far suggests that:1) Mr. Wilson has misrepresented his wife's role in getting him the assignment and his own findings of his investigation in Niger; 2) In July 2003, when columnist Robert Novak first mentioned in passing that Mrs. Plame worked for the CIA, she was not functioning as a covert agent and her work for the CIA was common knowledge; and 3) That if there were-- against the public record -- a covert status to be exposed, it was possibly Mr. Wilson, with a speculative assist from David Corn, who writes for the Nation magazine. (snip)

Ironically, Mr. Rove says he learned of Mrs. Plame's identity from a reporter. How did a journalist get that information? Very possibly, Mr. Wilson himself was the original source of the leak of his wife's identity as a secret agent. The first person to speculatively write on the assertion was Mr. Corn of the Nation, who wrote two days after Mr. Novak's original article was published that Mrs. Plame may have been a secret agent. Clifford May, writing last week in National Review Online, noted that Mr. Novak did not reveal that she was a secret agent. But Mr. Corn, who talked with Mr. Wilson, did raise the possibility of Mrs. Plame's "undercover" status. The bottom line is that based on what is currently known about the Plame case thus far, there is absolutely no legitimate reason to believe that Mr. Rove is the original source of the leak about Mrs. Plame's identity.

[marylandrepub1]

Conyers organizing online against Rove/Bush:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1446202/posts

[winner3000]

(Funny... for a moment I thought you were referring to the piece of hurl that I stumbled across on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) last night.)

TV5, CBC, BBC, ABC, Al-Jazeira, CNN, what's the difference? They might as well be Pravda.