White House Mum on Disclosure in CIA Leak

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White House Mum on Disclosure in CIA Leak

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050718/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation;_ylt=AmcyuqEQ01XjK2QzVwGu84ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

A role for Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby is among details revealed Sunday by Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, who wrote a first-person account in this week's issue.

Recounting a July 11, 2003, conversation with senior Bush political adviser Karl Rove, Cooper recalled that Rove told him, "I've already said too much" after revealing that the wife of administration critic Joseph Wilson apparently worked at the CIA.

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1. Repugs are changing the focus--they are concentrating on whether

or not their is something 'criminal' to the the actions of Rove.

......The CIA sent Wilson to check out intelligence that the government of Niger had a deal for the sale of yellowcake uranium to Iraq. Wilson did not find that such a deal took place.

Five days before Cooper's conversation with Rove, an op-ed piece by Wilson had appeared in The New York Times suggesting the Bush administration had manipulated pre-war intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq.

In 2003, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the idea that Rove was involved in leaking information about Wilson's wife was "ridiculous."

"There's no evidence that (Rove has) done anything criminally wrong," Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., said on CBS. He said the American people are taking the controversy "for what it is — politics."

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2. Repugs: "The information exonerates and vindicates, it does not implicate"

Rove"!!!!!! Geech!!

.....In an effort to quell a chorus of calls to fire Rove, Republicans said Sunday that he first learned about Plame's identity from the news media.

"The information exonerates and vindicates, it does not implicate" Rove, Republican Party chairman Ken Mehlman said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Folks involved in this, frankly, owe Karl Rove an apology."

There were no takers.

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3. Spinning like mad

Meanwhile, Fitzgerald and the grand jury are working quietly and steadily to undo all the Bushie bullshit.