Posted on 07/14/2005 8:27:58 PM PDT by freedrudge
Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
WASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said Thursday. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Graphic The White House on the Leak Related White House Quotes on the C.I.A. Leak Case (July 11, 2005) At Leak Inquiry's Center, a Circumspect Columnist (Dec. 31, 2004)
Wilson: What I Didn't Find in Africa (July 6, 2003)
Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer, who was referred to by her maiden name, Valerie Plame, and the circumstances in which her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, traveled to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq, the person said.
After hearing Mr. Novak's account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist: "I heard that, too."
The previously undisclosed telephone conversation, which took place on July 8, 2003, was initiated by Mr. Novak, the person who has been briefed on the matter said.
Six days later, Mr. Novak's syndicated column reported that two senior administration officials had told him that Mr. Wilson's "wife had suggested sending him" to Africa. That column was the first instance in which Ms. Wilson was publicly identified as a C.I.A. operative. The column provoked angry demands for an investigation into who disclosed Ms. Wilson's name to Mr. Novak.
The Justice Department appointed Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a top federal prosecutor in Chicago, to lead the inquiry. Mr. Rove said in an interview last year that he did not know the C.I.A. officer's name and did no
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Thanks, I went looking for it too.
All this insidious speculation, in the larger hopes of the libs and the media, to include Bush in this sickens me.
I'm sure we will not get through the day tomrrow without hearing at least one media whore shouting "what did the President know and when did he know it!"
The Times AND the AP exonerate Rove!
This LIE underpins the entire DemonicRat argument,,,, she was brought back from overseas in 1997 six years before the incident with Rove and Novak, the Statute has a 5 year limit on any liability. And only for CIA operatives overseas is it applicable!
no wonder they were all laughing so hysterically this morning...
"Rovebud"..love it, too funny!
"What about Joe Wilson and his "double super secret spy" wife?"
She is on double secret probation!
correction: after "yet another" failed gotcha story....
it's getting hard to count how many stories these fools concoct. And add Rove to the list of those the liberals say must go, i.e. Rummy must go, impeach Bush, Cheney and Halliburton, and on it goes...keep digging morons.
EXCELLENT CATCH!
This should brighten your day.
thanks mucho for the heads up. Looks like you stayed up for the news. Me? I'm just waking up to it, and my early, early morning coffee never tasted so good.
(And I haven't even read the AP yet.)
Well, if the Gang that Cannot Shoot Straight keeps up what they've been doing, they are more likely to accidentally dig up Dan Rather & Mary Mapes.
***Novak told a perfect stranger on the street the same day he talked to Rove!
That just stretches the imagination beyond belief.
Novak probably knew the person, even if only casually. Those were very candid remarks and not ones a person would usually make to a rank stranger.
Also, the fact that Wilson didn't name who his "friend" in all of this was leaves an awful aroma in the wind. Dollars to donuts Wilson sent him/her to feel Novak out as to what Novak knew. I mean, this "complete stranger" just casually started a conversation on the subject and Novak complied with no reservations whatsoever?? It just doesn't pass the smell test.
I, however, sure would like to see Novack "out" this "unknown friend" of Wilson's since outing others is the seasonal summer theme this year.
Can somebody help me refute a RAT at work who says if this had happened in a DemoRAT White House there would already be Congressional hearings on this and Talk Radio would be talking about it 24/7? Basically accusing us of hypocracy in other words. I just told them that knowing the kind of people in this administration, I give them the benefit of the doubt, where I wouldn't if it was a RAT president. Of course that doesn't go very far with the libs.
I think it was either Tenant or Plame herself.
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