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To: Alia
Alia,

Sorry about that, my post was sloppy. "Cooper burned Carl Rove" is a quote from the Byron YorK Story I was quoting.

I left out the link.

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200507121626.asp

Here is that post in a little better context

Lawyer: Cooper “Burned” Karl Rove Rove’s attorney talks to NRO.

The lawyer for top White House adviser Karl Rove says that Time reporter Matthew Cooper "burned" Rove after a conversation between the two men concerning former ambassador Joseph Wilson's fact-finding mission to Niger and the role Wilson's wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, played in arranging that trip. Nevertheless, attorney Robert Luskin says Rove long ago gave his permission for all reporters, including Cooper, to tell prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about their conversations with Rove.

In an interview with National Review Online, Luskin compared the contents of a July 11, 2003, internal Time e-mail written by Cooper with the wording of a story Cooper co-wrote a few days later. "By any definition, he burned Karl Rove," Luskin said of Cooper. "If you read what Karl said to him and read how Cooper characterizes it in the article, he really spins it in a pretty ugly fashion to make it seem like people in the White House were affirmatively reaching out to reporters to try to get them to them to report negative information about Plame."

I'm also new to the formatting around here and was afraid to try to format more of the story. I'm sorry for any confusion.

48 posted on 07/12/2005 4:27:26 PM PDT by grondram (The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
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To: grondram

Welcome, Grondram -- you are doing fine. I jumped the gun when I saw the words "Cooper burned Carl Rove" in your post having already read the article at NRO. That phrase jumped out at me then; and I jumped on the phrase in re your post. Not that I thought you had written it; but was quoting it.


60 posted on 07/12/2005 6:32:39 PM PDT by Alia (Free Karl Rove! No Justice No Peace!)
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