Press batters McClellan on Rove-Plame link

[brettdale]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/media/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000977309


Press batters McClellan on Rove-Plame link


NEW YORK -- At numerous press briefings last week, not a single reporter asked White House press secretary Scott McClellan about emerging allegations that top presidential aide Karl Rove was a source, or the source, for Time magazine's Matthew Cooper in the Valerie Plame case. Then on Sunday, Newsweek revealed a Cooper e-mail from July 2003 that showed that Rove indeed had talked to him about Plame and her CIA employment, although he apparently did not mention that she worked under cover.

This development apparently freed the journalists to hit McClellan hard at Monday afternoon's briefing. In September and October 2003, McClellan had rejected as "ridiculous" any suggestion that Rove was involved in the Plame leak.

[fishnfla]

1. By my count, from the press conference

'investigation" 33 times
"criminal investigation" 7 times

these words from the WH spokesman today

Oh to be a fly on the wall in the WH tonight.....

[kestrel91316]

2. The sharks have smelled blood and now circle slowly

[ellenfl]

3. boy, mcclellan was tap dancing as fast as he could!

that boy is going to have a mental breakdown one of these days . . . hopefully soon. not that i wish him ill but perhaps he will finally come clean.

it's nice to see some real questions from the press corps.

ellen fl

[SoCalDem]

4. Mmmm.. Tempura batter , I hope

FRY that bugger:)