White House denials on Rove fall silent

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(Caption should read, "Rut roh...I need a change of clean undies!?")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8545657/page/2/

WASHINGTON - For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer's identity and that whoever did would be fired.

But Bush spokesman Scott McClellan wouldn't repeat those claims Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer, Robert Luskin, acknowledging the political operative spoke to Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, one of the reporters who disclosed Valerie Plame's name.

McLellan repeatedly said he couldn't comment because the matter is under investigation. When it was pointed out he had commented previously even though the investigation was ongoing, he responded: "I've really said all I'm going to say on it."

The Rove disclosure was an embarrassment for a White House that prides itself on not leaking to reporters and has insisted that Rove was not involved in exposing Plame's identity.

[skooooo]

1. Blood in the water....

....and the sharks are coming out.

[dalloway]

2. man, I'm gonna kick that just for your caption! n/t

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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3. LOL!

[Inland]

4. Won't even say that leaks are bad anymore, lest Karl is fingered.

No more pronouncements on how bad leaks are and how they hope the USA will get to the bottom of it and how the perpetrator will be punished.

They know that anything they say will get pulled up when Rove is fingered and they want to be able to keep him on as long as possible.

Not realizing that refusing to comment is itself revealing.

[wurzel]

5. I guess those denials are now "non-operative".

As Ron Zeigler used to put it.

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6. David Gregory tried to nail him. He's a good reporter.

[The Icon Painter]

7. Kick

:kick:

[trekbiker]

8. Deer in the headlights... KICK