Karl Rove and the Valerie Plame Leak

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July 10, 2005

Newsweek's latest weekly feature of the Karl Rove and Valerie Plame story is up. This time it’s a bit more interesting than last week's breathless Larry O'Donnell promise of the "It's Rove" revelation.

Newsweek reports that Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper sent an e-mail at 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003 to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy.

Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential)

"Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to ove or even WH " and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.

Cooper is free from jail as he turned over this e-mail and has agreed to testify in the Valerie Plame case and disclose his source to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Cooper's source gave him permission to testify.

So is Rove ready to be "frog marched" out of the White House as Bush-hater and Valerie Plame's hubby Joe Wilson has fantasized about?

David Corn warns the Bush haters to be cautious:

To be clear, this new evidence does not necessarily mean slammer-time for Rove. Under the relevant law, it's only a crime for a government official to identify a covert intelligence official if the government official knows the intelligence officer is under cover, and this documentary evidence, I'm told, does not address this particular point. But this new evidence does show that Rove -- despite his lawyers claim that Rove "did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA" -- did reveal to Cooper in a deep-background conversation that Wilson's wife was in the CIA.

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Every time I see this...

Greg Marmalard: But Delta's already on probation.
Dean Vernon Wormer: They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!

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3. Well, this administration wants to "get to the bottom of this"...

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2. Ambassador Joe Wilson -- Still Fighting the Bush Administration....

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Ambassador Joe Wilson -- Still Fighting the Bush Administration's "Culture of Unaccountability"
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

July 9, 2005

In my judgment, a smear campaign operated out of the White House is unethical, to say the least. The First Amendment specifically says that nothing should be done to abridge a citizen's right to petition his government to redress a grievance. The attack on me, through the compromise of Valerie's identity, is an assault on not just my petition to redress a grievance, but it is also a deterrent to other citizens who might step forward. That is why I have always argued that Rove should be fired, even if no indictments are forthcoming.

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If there's a list of people who have fearlessly stood up for democracy, decency and the truth against the corrupt buzzsaw of the Bush Administration, Ambassador Joe Wilson is certainly at the top of the list.

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Ambassador Joe Wilson released the following statement to BuzzFlash and other outlets on Wednesday, July 6:

Statement of Joseph Wilson on the sentencing of New York Times Reporter Judith Miller

The sentencing of Judith Miller to jail for refusing to disclose her sources is the direct result of the culture of unaccountability that infects the Bush White House from top to bottom. President Bush's refusal to enforce his own call for full cooperation with the Special Counsel has brought us to this point. Clearly, the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House than coming clean on a serious breach of national security. Thus has Ms Miller joined my wife, Valerie, and her twenty years of service to this nation as collateral damage in the smear campaign launched when I had the temerity to challenge the President on his assertion that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium yellowcake from Africa.

The real victims of this cover-up, which may have turned criminal, are the Congress, the Constitution and, most tragically, the Americans and Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly.

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[Hubert Flottz]

4. I could hear loudly and clearly what Wilson was saying before...

the invasion! The UN weapons inspectors were saying just about the same things that Wilson was saying, at that time! No huge numbers of WMD to be found in Iraq before the war. None found since the "Mission Was Accomplished". I believe the neocon "Mission" was really accomplished in Iraq, when the US forces secured the Iraqi oil fields. All those countries that didn't jump on Bush's war wagon were pretty sure they hadn't sold Saddam the means to produce WMD, except for maybe some of the small countries in the former USSR.

The neocons were smearing anyone who rubbed them the wrong way, like Scott Ridder, for instance!

Conspiracies are just as possible today, as they were when Julius Caesar fell victim to one centuries ago!