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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Is this a setup? Watch for the NYT or the rest of the MSM to conduct a poll of "journalist" and see how many told Rove Plame's identity. They'll publish responses such as: "No wasn't me" , "never heard heard of her", "wasn't she in People or Vanity Fair"... They'll then claim that Rove is lying and should be prosecuted for perjury. Of couse, the real testimony cannot be revealed by the Court.
They maybe creating a Kangarove court in the media.
... tale of a newspaper's attempt to create a mega-citizen out of whole cloth. Nothing is as it seems. And they will stop at nothing
to protect...well..nothing..
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It's a Seinfeld episode.
LOL, what a title. Leave it to the NYT.
Just the NYT spreading the big lie. Surely their writers understand the difference between "was" and "had been."
I also think the connections are exactly what you wrote. Speaking of blabbing, - 'ol Joe wrote in his book that Valerie broke her cover to him on their third date. That sounds like sloppy tradecraft to me.
"Wilson's an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife,
Valerie, works for the CIA. She's a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him." At that point, my friend and Novak went their separate ways.
My friend headed straight for my office a couple of blocks away.
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Assuming that this conversation ever did take place, (and if Eason Jordan corroberates it, it must be true!) it becomes obvious that to Novak "works for CIA" "wmd specialist" does not in any way convey "covert."
There must be tens of thousands of people who work for the CIA and live around the beltway.
OF Course she does. Miller covered WMDs EXTENSIVELY.Miller Probably also had Alan Foley's extension on her Rolodex.
Foley is Novaks First Senior Administration Official (No Partisan Gunslinger) Rove, the Second ("Oh, so you know about it..?"
Miller, clearly is the journalist...
In all probablility it breaks down like this.
Someone was wondering where Miller was on the story, and asked her...She probably replied, I am not writing that story, bc Wilson was not sent by VP or DCIA, his Wife got him sent because CIA CPD does not support the War effort. (And you know THAT STORY WAS NOT GOING INTO THE NYTimes..)
Now, fast forward a bit, Cooper has a conversation with Rove. No big deal, sends the email to his boss. Goes home that night over dinner with Mandy-kins, discusses the days events. BAM two Cooper then turns the innocuous comment, into a storyu about the WH attacking wilson.Thats where the Clinton Fingerprints lie.
Tell them that President Bush called for the SP to find the leak in his admin because he does not tolerate leakers. The results will be revealed in October.
If they poohpooh that concept, tell them that Valerie Plame's kids and Matt Cooper's kid go to the same pre-school. (That may or may not be true, but it is conceivable.) All the glitterati have the same connections. The Wilsons seem to be supreme social climbers to me, so I imagine they would "have to be" at all the "right" institutions, clubs, etc.
Matt Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, close friend of Hillary, and high ranking dem operative.
The writer of this article carefully chose their words to make Rove look as bad as possible. Nice going, Times.
Two words for your friend. Sandy Berger. Here's a former Democrat National Security Advisor who ADMITS stealing classified documents from the National Archives, most likely to cover up his and Bill Clinton's failures to grasp the threat of Al Qaeda, and NO journalist even calls the prosecutor's office the day he is supposed to be sentenced! They are all staking out Karl Rove's house!
And how about your friend's hero John Kerry exposing and naming an active CIA field agent in a hearing just a few weeks ago! We sure heard about that 24/7 in the media didn't we!
These Rats are so FOS it's ridiculous.
bttt
Well, it must be true; after all, Wilson wrote it, right?
I await Novak's promised account; I imagine he's mad as hell today because somebody has "leaked" his testimony (how ironic that these HONORABLE reporters would do that, eh?).
He's going to even some scores.
Anyway, what gives Wilson the right to say or even think that she wasn't "fair game" -- she ORIGINATED the trip -- she IS part of the story, right?
He is way too indignate for me not to be suspicious that something more is going on here; this "protecting my woman" thing is wearing pretty thin with me.
Last night on Aaron Brown's show, even old dumb Aaron pointed out to the once again indiginant Wilson that that is the way D.C. works: you hurt me, I hurt you back; he asked Wilson why he thought he was so dang different.
BROWN: I imagine there are those in Washington who would say, absent a crime being credit committed, that all this was, or what this was -- and people can decide whether appropriate or not -- is politics the way it's played in Washington. You hurt them, they hurt you. They saw you as a partisan attacking them, and so they went after you. And that's just the way Washington politics is played. It's not patty cake.
Wilson ignored him, of course.
He's taking this WAY too personally, if you ask me. Squealing like a stuck pig comes to mind.
Could Judith Miller's source be ......
VALERIE PLAME!
If you were a dem, you would just say "Valerie Plame is Judith Miller's source." They always take related items and weave them into the shape they want.
I plan to start dropping this factoid into conversations whenever I can.
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