Posted on 07/11/2006 10:51:06 PM PDT by brain bleeds red
WASHINGTON — Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
In a column, Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said.
"I have revealed Rove's name because his attorney has divulged the substance of our conversation, though in a form different from my recollection," Novak wrote. Novak did not elaborate.
A spokesman for Rove's legal team, Mark Corallo, said that Rove did not even know Plame's name at the time he spoke with Novak, that the columnist called Rove, not the other way around, and that Rove simply said he had heard the same information that Novak passed along to him regarding Plame.
"There was not much of a difference" between the recollections of Rove and Novak, said Corallo.
Novak said he is talking now because Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald told the columnist's lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded.
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Triggering the criminal investigation, Novak revealed Plame's CIA employment on July 14, 2003, eight days after her husband, White House critic and former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.
Novak's secret cooperation with prosecutors while maintaining a public silence about his role kept him out of legal danger and had the effect of providing protection for the Bush White House during the 2004 presidential campaign.
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Any reporter who leaks information from the anonymous sources should be spit on for the human excrement they are.
Report the facts and who told them to them or shut the hell up.
These people went to college for this crappy writing and trashy information.
what does "off the record" mean now?
I am interpreting your post as saying Prosecutor Fitzgerald perpetrated a fraud upon the court, and the judge winked at, suborned really, perjury.
This whole Plame thing was such a crock of crap, it's turned into just another divorce court circus.
An honest judge is supposed to halt a proceeding when it goes off the rails, which explains why this has been in the news this many years.
Could the AP have come up with a headline that was anymore bias?
Great analysis!
Quite right. It would be interesting to perform a name recognition test concerning Plame and her lying b------ of a husband with the American public. I would bet that less than ten percent could recognize their names. Heck, I'll bet most Americans don't know who Karl Rove is. Most people aren't news junkies much less political news junkies.
That's the way Matthews & Schuster 'splained it last night... ;)
Four Scourges of the World:
1. Liberal Media
2. Democrats
3. Islamofacists
4. Communists
Good analysis, especially the parts concerning the "Prosecutor's prosecutor".
Novak should keep his flap shut.
He goes on to say---and AP left this out---that he got Plames name from "Who's Who." Now, IMHO, that does NOT even qualify as a "source."
Oh for cryin in a beer...Novak getting desperate for some attention or something? It is LONG past time that this stupid PLame thing got put to bed.
Novak is a jerk. Just tell us who your source is and let the Country go on. He acts like this is Deep Throat when it is small potatoes. Come on Novak, clean up your mess!!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Novak will also be appearing on Brit Hume today at 6PM eastern.
"The investigation is over, move on, if the liberals want to waste their time on this, more power to them."
I awakened for a time early this morning and was listening on my radio, looking for something decent. While searching for news, I ran across Democrat Hate Radio--some call it Air America. The guys were re-hashing the whole thing, taking it apart piece by piece, as if it happened yesterday.
No wonder they're all so hate-filled. They keep losing.
(Isn't this done by losers?"
They will not move beyond this thing until Fitzgerald re-opens the investigation and kills someone.
What's the point of being sarcastic, & rude?
Novak called Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer, and asked if Vallery Plame worked at the CIA.. Harlow replied that she did work at the CIA!
Novak reasoned that if the Bill Harlow of the CIA PUBLIC information office told him Plame worked at the CIA she could not be covert.
Harlow also told Novak Plames job title....
How could Plame be covert if the public information office of the CIA first confirms she works at the CIA and then tells a reporter her job title.
Novak called Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer, and asked if Vallery Plame worked at the CIA.. Harlow replied that she did work at the CIA!
Novak reasoned that if the Bill Harlow of the CIA PUBLIC information office told him Plame worked at the CIA she could not be covert.
Harlow also told Novak Plames job title....
How could Plame be covert if the public information office of the CIA first confirms she works at the CIA and then tells a reporter her job title.
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