Yahoo story to rate: Rove was first source on CIA agent - Time reporter

[tuvor]

By Randall Mikkelsen 26 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House political aide Karl Rove was the first person to tell a Time magazine reporter that the wife of a prominent critic of the Bush administration's
Iraq policy was a
CIA agent, the reporter said in an article on Sunday.

Time correspondent Matthew Cooper said he told a grand jury last week that Rove told him the woman worked at the "agency," or CIA, on weapons of mass destruction issues, and ended the call by saying "I've already said too much."

He said Rove did not disclose the woman's name, Valerie Plame, but told him information would be declassified that would cast doubt on the credibility of her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, who had charged the Bush administration with exaggerating the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs in making its case for war.

"So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the 'agency' on 'WMD'? Yes," Cooper wrote in Time's current edition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/bush_leak_dc;_ylt=Agg1BvGQeLGKE_Ou71RycT0DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Glenda]

1. done n/t

[Sparkman]

19. Spin this one REPUBLICANSKI's! NOW it's time for the beer run, finally!

I'm looking for some pot, some Budweiser, and a Roy Orbison Video.
Tonight's the night! Wee Haaaaaaa!

[stray cat]

2. Thanks, Done

[Straight Shooter]

3. Done.

I wonder how many "Benedict Rove" issues Time will sell?

FWIW, I think Cooper is a self-serving disingenuous piece of crap.

[sellitman]

4. Done and kicked!

:kick:

[Catch22Dem]

5. It said 202 votes before I voted

Then I rated it and refreshed the page and it said 198. :wtf:

[Glenda]

6. Rate this one too

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation_1

Now being discussed here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1633902

[Stevious]

7. done

:kick:

[Quixote1818]

8. Rove: "I have already said too much." HINT HINT!!!!

nt

[wtmusic]

9. *sound of prison door slamming*

music to my ears :headbang:

[BillZBubb]

10. Rover's in deep doo-doo now.

This contradicts his story, and is a clear violation of the Security laws.

[ThomWV]

11. Doesn't His Prior Knowledge Of Declassification = Conspiracy?

Certainly the act of declassifying any information at all was two things at once. First; it was not something that Karl Rove had the ability to do. Karl could not classify or declassify anything. Someone else had to do that. Second; His knowledge of that as-yet undone deed along with his personal inability to accomplish it means that he was part of a larger group which could declassify and intended to declassify. Would that not mean that if it is illegal to alter the classification of sensitive material for political purpose, or any purpose other than the intended use of the material I suppose, then the group that planned to do so was in fact what we call conspirital? Is not Rove then a conspirator? Isn't that it itself illegal?

[Just Me]

15. Good point.

Yep! This undoubtedly involves a criminal conspiracy.

[kentuck]

12. Vary informative -- recommended !

kentuck

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Done

[Eugene]

14. Done and recommended.

And don't miss the Cheney aide story at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation_2

:kick:

[Spiffarino]

21. Both read and rated

5 stars for TRAITORGATE

[Grillydad]

16. Done n/t

[chill_wind]

18. Done

and kick!

[Ravy]

17. Indicates Rove knew it was classified information he was telling the

reporter. I hope this sticks.

[Quixote1818]

20. Kick

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. done n/t

[bleever]

23. If Rove knew she worked on WMD, he would have know she was

undercover, in all likelihood, since those two pieces of info would have not have been separate.

AND he knew it was classified when he spoke to Cooper.

Buh-bye, Karl. I'd say "thanks for playing", but, eh, not so much.


:)

[Douglas Carpenter]

24. done and kick and recommended

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