Time Reporter Contradicts Rove's Alibi; Rovegate and DSM Continue to Conve

[brettdale]

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Time Reporter Contradicts Rove's Alibi; Rovegate and DSM Continue to Converge

Today's most important development is the Time Magazine Article (via Buzzflash) penned by Matthew Cooper contradicting Rove's somewhat ludicrous claim that he learned about Valerie Plame from the Press. Cooper states quite clearly that he learned for the first time about Plame from Rove, not the other way around. Rove also specifically stated that she worked at the CIA on WMD. So much for Friday's weak attempt by the GOP to spin their way out of this one.

Second, I would also call your attention to Frank Rich's Op-Ed in the New York Times that Rovegate is really part and parcel of the ongoing deception in Iraq. Let me quote from the critical paragraph: "This case is about Iraq, not Niger. The real victims are the American people, not the Wilsons. The real culprit - the big enchilada, to borrow a 1973 John Ehrlichman phrase from the Nixon tapes - is not Mr. Rove but the gang that sent American sons and daughters to war on trumped-up grounds and in so doing diverted finite resources, human and otherwise, from fighting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. That's why the stakes are so high: this scandal is about the unmasking of an ill-conceived war, not the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative who posed for Vanity Fair."

[LSparkle]

1. Rich is concise and spot-on as usual ...

[spindoctor]

2. Yep. Let's put this on our talking points memo for this week. lol

Silly Republicans.