White House Follows Scandal Script For Rove (Helen Thomas)

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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/4719257/detail.html

White House Follows Scandal Script For Rove
Assurances Of Innocence Change To Lack Of Comment
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist

POSTED: 3:45 pm EDT July 13, 2005

Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman, has found that public statements defending the White House can sometimes return to haunt him.

McClellan told reporters in the fall of 2003 that deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, the President George W. Bush's chief political adviser, had nothing to do with the public outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA officer.

However, Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, now says that Rove did in fact discuss Plame's CIA role with Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper, but did not tell Cooper her name.

Luskin also said he had been assured by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Rove is not a target of a grand jury investigating the leak.

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