CNN forgets Rove falsehood on its own broadcasts

[steve2470]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507150006

On the July 15 edition of CNN Live Today, host Daryn Kagan described recent news articles reporting that White House senior adviser Karl Rove had learned the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame before leaking her identity to a reporter, but left viewers in the dark that this revelation directly contradicts Rove's August 31, 2004, statement on her own cable news channel that "I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name." On the same day's edition of CNN's Live From ..., White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported that, according to a "lawyer familiar with the grand jury investigation," Rove learned Plame's name prior to his conversation with Time reporter Matthew Cooper and that Rove did not reveal her name "because he was trying to be discreet." Like Kagan, Malveaux failed to mention Rove's prior claim on CNN that he "didn't know her name."

Reporting on a July 15 New York Times article, which noted "Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer" during a July 8, 2003, phone conversation, Kagan stated:

KAGAN: There is a new twist to the Karl Rove-CIA leak controversy. Latest reports indicating that the president's top political adviser may have actually learned the identity of a former CIA operative, Valerie Plame, from a reporter. That reporter, Chicago Sun-Times columnist and CNN political analyst Robert Novak. Both The New York Times and the Associated Press cite an unnamed source as saying Novak mentioned Plame's name after calling Rove, and revealing she worked for the CIA.

Kagan did not make it clear in her report, but in fact, the most significant revelation in the Times article -- and a similar article in the Associated Press -- was that prior to Rove's July 11 conversation with Cooper, he already knew not only that Plame worked for the CIA, but also her actual name. This new disclosure contradicts Rove's statement nearly a year after the Novak conversation that he "didn't know her name." The interview aired on an August 31, 2004, special edition of CNN"s NewsNight with Aaron Brown:<snip>

[Zuni]

1. Isn't Daryn Kagan dating Rush Limbaugh?

:think:

[zanne]

2. That begs the question...

Where did Novak get his information?

[tallahasseedem]

3. She is Rush Addict's girlfriend....

Of course she is trying to keep viewers in the dark.

[Ilsa]

4. Yeah, forward this to Fitz. n/t

[Alpharetta]

5. Where's the email? Why can't I find it?

"I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press.

I'd really like to see the full text of the email. Are there any news organizations who will show it to me instead of spinning it?