For your Yahoo rating pleasure: Rove's lawyer admits Rove was source

[Bluebear]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050710/pl_afp/usjusticemediarove_050710203623

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Top White House aide Karl Rove discussed a former US ambassador and his CIA agent wife with a Time magazine reporter, according to a report.

The Newsweek weekly quoted Rove lawyer Robert Luskin as confirming that Rove was the source who gave information to Time reporter Matt Cooper under a pledge of confidentiality, and last week released him to testify about that conversation to a grand jury.

Cooper had been ordered by a US federal judge to testify before the grand jury investigating whether the agent's identity was illegally leaked.

Rove, President George W. Bush's deputy chief of staff, has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about former ambassador Joseph Wilson or his wife, Valerie Plame.

[Scout1071]

1. Rated a 5 and emailed.

[Coexist]

3. Me three.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Soooo, in other words...

Either Ruskin, Rove or both were knowingly lying last week when they were denying Rove;s involvement?

Sweet. Now, let's see if people have basic cognitive skills and pick up on this.

[havocmom]

4. Ahem, is he gonna ask for a mistrial because he ratted on his client

before his client had a trial?

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Oh wow!

So what does this mean? Does this mean that Karl Rove is a traitor and is going to jail for ten years?!

[Miss Chybil]

7. It means they probably aren't going to do shit to him.

Why else be so candid all of a sudden?

[Ian David]

6. Done. Don't forget to use the email and print buttons.

[tuvor]

8. You can run, karl.

Yes, you can run. You know the rest of the saying :evilgrin:

[ChiciB1]

22. Running Is HOW This All Began!

Do you still have FAITH?? I'm NOT talking about faith in Gad, I'm talking about their Fire-Brand form for Demo-insanity!!

Rover needs to be PULSATED!!!

[ChiciB1]

24. Dear Gad... Had A Freudian Slip! n/t

[i miss america]

9. Voted, emailed, nominated and kicked

:kick:

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. done!

:kick:

[gatorboy]

11. I love that pic.

"Run, Forrest!"

[Bluebear]

12. "Run, Forrest!"

:rofl:

[indepat]

13. Gee, this is beginning to make me wonder if Karl might get chided or

even get his little hands slapped.

[Ian David]

14. Is it treason yet? n/t

[i miss america]

16. No, it is not a crime when done by a republican.

[Hepburn]

15. Well, here is what I am thinking...

...and just for what it is worth:

When Matt Cooper decided to testify, he stated that he did so because his source gave him an unequivocal OK to do so. The interesting part about this? It happened AFTER the attorneys for Rove and Cooper met with USAtty Fitzgerald. Just a gut reaction, but Karl could be looking at not only perjury and obstruction of justice charges, but he is looking at the big one, too: A violation of 50 USC 421 for outing Plame.

Bottom line: I smell that a deal might be in the air and Rove is the one making it. Just really, really a gut reaction, tho, but maybe Rove is about to cut a deal and that is why the spin is off from his atty as to his involvement. However, keep one thing in mind: If Rove cuts a deal, then he has to give the USAtty something he wants for the deal. I am wondering what that could possibly be. Just a feeling, but to me it is starting to smell a lot like Watergate where the big guys did not go down for the crime, the break in of the DNC HQ, but the for cover-up. Maybe Rove gave someone over on this.

I can only hope.....

[converted_democrat]

19. Thank you Hepburn!

Thank you for your review, I enjoy reading your posts.

[emulatorloo]

27. You are probably on to something. . . . Thanks for posting this EOM

[Roland99]

17. #1 most-viewed news article in Yahoo Politics

[babsbunny]

18. Please tell me there is hope!

Hope this evil administration will soon be going away? I pray to God every day for patience, as this Evil episode in America's history crumbles. Amen!

[i miss america]

20. FOLLOW UP: a second story is now on Yahoo which you can also DU

This one is from Reuters:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=6&u=/nm/politics_leak_dc

Please give it the five star treatment.

[City Lights]

25. Rated and emailed both. n/t

[MelissaB]

32. done!

[Mnemosyne]

37. I emailed both to this address:

[e-mail]

Hope he enjoys this article!!

[i miss america]

43. LOL ... but too bad he doesn't read things on the Internets

or anywhere else, for that matter. :eyes:

[Mnemosyne]

45. I bet he may get this one, I sent it from my new email

impeach@______ What do you think? LOL

[i miss america]

51. Ha! Great idea. I'm going to setup a similar email address. :-)

[Califooyah Operative]

38. done. nt

[MelissaB]

21. done!

Thanks!

[converted_democrat]

23. Done!

[kster]

26. Question

With Rove getting caught in this, doesn't it give proof to the DSM that the facts where indeed "fixed around the policy"?

[converted_democrat]

33. In my opinion, yes.

But keep in mind, my opinion means squat.

[Festivito]

50. Plamegate is an example of fixing Intel to fit policy...

But, was it to discredit the husband's report, or
was it to destroy researching WMDs by outing the wife while blaming the outing on the husband/wife nepotism, or
a little of both?

It's ONE example.
It lends credibility to the notion.
It lends credibility to the veracity of other stories, e.g. OSP.

If it's enough proof for you. GO with it.

Careful, Rove might be found not guilty. BUT, we do know that it was a Bush admin official that did the outing. We don't know who. And, Bush won't ask them to tell him.

[brettdale]

28. kick

kick

[Califooyah Operative]

29. done - and don't forget to email it too. nt

[I Have A Dream]

30. Recommended & kicked.

:kick:

[senseandsensibility]

31. kick!

:kick:

[AlwaysDemocrat]

34. Done (n/t)

[Mnemosyne]

35. It's #2 on most emailed now!!

[dalloway]

36. rated both. done. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

39. It's most popular now!

[i miss america]

40. Very cool ... keep up the good work!

[deacon]

41. Ok, but who the other one? Aren't there two? n/t

[spanone]

42. Rated & Recommended. I hope they nail his heartless ass.

[dooner]

44. See this new story from the Washington Post (link to other thread)

Sounds like they are working out their defense, and setting up somebody else? Suddenly Tenent's name is showing up.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1616981

[donheld]

46. Done

kick

[Im with Rosey]

47. Love the Pic!

Done and done.

[Tesla]

48. Now he can see for himself if the techniques work at Abu Gitmo....

Oh, sorry, I must be dreaming......

E-mailed and KICKED!!!!!!

[malmapus]

49. Rated, emailed, nominated

:kick:

Take the money and run Kkkarl