[frankjr]

Loooong article, but chock full of interesting stuff.

I find Rove later remembering about the Cooper meeting as an oversight that he corrected...this article makes it sound like a criminal act.

[EagleUSA]

...this article makes it sound like a criminal act.
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Welcome to the ugly, leftist media, the news outlet for the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE...always negative, always trying to make Repubs look exactly like what they are...crooked, liars, criminals, slimey, the list goes on.

[hsalaw]

It's not even clear any crime was committed. And I really don't think Rove's failure to recall a conversation rises to the level of concealment of evidence or lying to federal prosecuters or whatever the heck they're talking about.

[Ditter]

Weren't we informed early on that Plame had not been an undercover agent for 5 or 6 years before her name became known and that was long enough that it was no longer a crime to out her?

[jws3sticks]

Rove: "I am not a crook"

[frankjr]

ping

[mumps]

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame....

Well, it would have been pretty damned stupid of Rove to tell Bush anything if he had been involved because short of immediately reporting Rove to the authorities, Bush could have been implicated in a conspiracy.

This is not the type of situation where executive privilege or right to legal counsel could be claimed, so if Rove had been naughty, naughty (and I'm not saying he had), then the right thing to do was lie to Bush.