Leak investigation tests Bush, Rove relationship!!! KRN

[fearnobush]

"People are scared of Karl," said Tom Pauken, who ran afoul of Bush and Rove when he headed the Texas Republican Party. "If you oppose Karl on anything, you're on the enemies list. You become the enemy even if you're not really one."

Pauken said he wasn't at all surprised to see Rove linked to the CIA case.

"Karl's been doing this for years. He uses reporters to plant negative information, to attack the credibility of real or perceived foes," he said. "It's just the usual Karl Rove scorched-earth policy."

In 1992, Rove was fired from the elder Bush's presidential re-election campaign because of suspicions that he leaked a story disparaging a fellow Republican to columnist Robert Novak, another journalist at the center of the CIA case. It was Novak who first exposed Wilson's wife, although it isn't clear where he got the information about her CIA connection.

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[RobertSeattle]

1. Poor George

Rove or Country?
Rove or Ethics?

I think he'll pick Rove

[Skittles]

4. and he won't lose a bit of sleep over it

not one bit

[jbfam4]

2. So rove and novak

Go way back....

In 1992, Rove was fired from the elder Bush's presidential re-election campaign because of suspicions that he leaked a story disparaging a fellow Republican to columnist Robert Novak, another journalist at the center of the CIA case. It was Novak who first exposed Wilson's wife, although it isn't clear where he got the information about her CIA connection.

[skip fox]

3. Rove could well receive several indictments.

The more we know, the more it seems that there will be multiple indictments for "high administration officials" in Fitzgerald's final report including at least two for Rove. (If not indictments, we'll have notifications of non-indictable wrongful activities--or some such--in the prosecutor's final report).

I say this because in learning about multiple leakers for the 6 reported contacts and multiple confirming sources, it becomes apparent what occurred. One administrative official discovered the Plame-Wilson-Niger relationship, took it to the White House Iraq Group, turned it over to Rove, who on the spot assigned tasks to different primary leakers/sources assuring no source called another source's contact (so as not to appear too eager), that no source's "pitch" was exactly the same but that their information was all given in an "off hand" manner (e.g., "Don't go too far out on this Wilson thing, I don't want you burnt").

Simply "doing the numbers" has told me this all along, but as new information comes out my analysis is being confirmed. We knew there were at least 6 initial leaks/contacts. Now we know that there were at least three different initial leakers (Rove, Libby, and one unnamed as yet who would not specifically release his contact, Miller) and of the 6 reporters 4 are confirmed as Miller, Novak, Cooper, and Pincus. We also realize that there must have been a number of other confirming sources (because you cannot assure who the reporter will call for confirmation). John Dean said last week that there was a total of 11 contacts (both original and confirming calls).

A master-mind would have been necessary to coordinate all these calls by different people AND would have to insure that a number of other officials were ready and willing to confirm the initial leaks.

They would have gone to Rove immediately and he, probably in an emergency of the White House Iraq Group, assigned the roles, the stories and the stances, etc.

So he not only leaked by was the mastermind of a conspiracy to leak.

We can only hope he lead a cover-up and committed perjury as well.