Matt Cooper confirmed info from Rove with Scooter Libby

[housewolf]

This from Laura Rosen's "War and Piece" blog -



http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002253.html

This from Dan Froomkin's WaPo chat today on Rove/Plame caught my eye:

Colorado Springs, Colo.: From what we've learned from Matt Cooper's e-mail, it sounds like his info was single-sourced. Is there more from what Times Magazine has turned over that we haven't heard about? And, how was the e-mail revealed if this was suppose to be "secret?"

Dan Froomkin: Actually, it's been established that Cooper called Libby the next day, and confirmed it with him...

We all have ideas about what Karl Rove's operations entail, but can someone enlighten me why Libby might have been a central player in all of this? I understood him to be less a political operator than a policy advisor to Cheney (he's officially Cheney's chief of staff and assistant to the VP for national security affairs), but he seems to have been at the center of this blatantly political effort to retaliate against an administration critic to the press. Would be curious what people know about Libby's role in the WH.
Posted by Laura at 05:33 PM


Edit to add:
This item has been removed from "War and Piece" with no explanation, so you won't find it if you try the link about. However, the entire transcript of the chat is posted here and you'll find this question way down near the bottom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/30/DI2005063000783.html

I'd recommend reading the complete transcript, it's quite interesting and informative.

[jsamuel]

1. ah so his name finnaly Offically came up...

[shraby]

2. Libby probably had the security

clearance that Rove didn't have. Also Libby is "dirty" from his work in a previous administration.

[seemslikeadream]

3. Bolton told Libby

Libby told Rove

bush knew
Cheney knew

[SoCalDem]

4. Don't forget that Cheney & Scooter HOUNDED the CIA

practically daily.... During the lead up to the war, they were there all the time pressuring them to "see things their way"... People who have since left the agency (after Poerte Goss' arrival) said they had NEVER seen such pressure from a vice president.

[TahitiNut]

5. "Cooper called Libby the next day, and confirmed it with him"???

Well, now ... that proves CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE. Let's try hard to remember - when this broke 2 years ago, the CIA investigated and turned it over for a federal grand jury, and the Chimperor made his proclamations of cooperation and discipline.

Now we have proof that Libby knew that Rove leaked it to Cooper! Until now, Libby kept quiet. That's obstruction.

[brettdale]

6. kick

kick

[Bozita]

7. Tag-team leaking by the #1 guys of both Bush and Cheney

Of course, both Bush and Cheney don't know a thing about it.

Give me a break.

[LizW]

8. Libby's in it up to his neck

At some point between around March and the first of July, Libby held a meeting (attendees unknown) where it was decided to do a "work-up" on Wilson. After this was done, Libby went around the WH openly talking about Wilson, calling him an "asshole playboy". Rove took information on Wilson to others in the administration.

This was happening BEFORE Wilson wrote his article on July 6, so obviously the WH knew that Wilson had the goods on the Niger forgeries, and might expose it.

Now, why was Libby tasked with collecting the dirt on Wilson? I think because the order came from Cheney. Cheney later claimed he didn't even know who Wilson was, but that is obviously a lie.

[seemslikeadream]

9. AMERICAN JUDAS -THE SELLING OF THE SECURITY OF AMERICA

http://wherearetheweapons.blogspot.com/2004/08/american-judas-selling-of-security-of.html

AMERICAN JUDAS -THE SELLING OF THE SECURITY OF AMERICAN & THE WORLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER = Part 1

By Robert Paulsen & the DU Plame Think-Tank

[Hissyspit]

10. Definitely nominated. n/t

[understandinglife]

11. The pieces come together and they spell = TREASON BY WHITE HOUSE.

And, folk like the editors at the Minneapolis Star Tribune grok it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4097268&mesg_id=4097268

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[sandnsea]

12. Cooper testified about Libby last year

Last August he was facing jail and Libby gave him express permission to testify. It was in all the papers. So this is old news and I don't know why his name isn't being included now. Between Rove & Libby, who do you think knew who Valerie Plame was first? This goes straight to Dick Cheney and nobody is talking about it.

[burythehatchet]

13. cheney...cheney...cheney

that bastard is the nexus of all that has been perpetrated over the past 5 years.

[cynatnite]

14. DC Dick gave the go ahead to leak it

This would never have happened without his approval. The WH luvs their secrets too damn much.

[kohodog]

15. And Bush is a vindictive little shit.

He never outgrew blowing up frogs. This has his smell too. He probably told Cheney et al: Whatever it takes get the mfer (Joe Wilson). This kind of vindictive leak suits his personality perfectly.