'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal

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FROM TRUTHOUT --- VERY ARTICLE.

'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher
Thursday 11 August 2005

New York - In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair (not yet online), Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media - principally Time magazine and The New York Times - who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been "one of the biggest stories of the Bush years." Not only that, "they helped cover it up." You might say, he adds, they "became part of a conspiracy."

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And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the government - the source "was the government."

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Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press secretary about it. It was a story, "in full view, the media just ignored."

The title of the Wolff article is "All Roads Lead to Rove."

He closes with a frontal blast at the media, many members of which will soon be exposed, he predicts, for having "lined up for these lies" spun by the White House.




http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081205Y.shtml

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