DNC: Karl Rove: UNCOVERED

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release
July 6, 2005

Contact: Karen Finney - 202-863-8148

Karl Rove: UNCOVERED

Until recently, Karl Rove had denied even knowing Valerie Plame's name. Now,
after the release of emails from Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper revealing
the name of the White House source, Rove's lawyer confirmed that Rove did speak
with reporters about the case. With his history of questionable campaign
tactics and his penchant for leaking information critical of his rivals, Rove
should come clean with the American people: Did he endanger our national
security by leaking a CIA operative's name?

First, Rove Denied Any Involvement

August of 2004: Rove Claimed He Did Not Know Who Plame Was. In August of 2004,
facing questions of his role in the Plame leak scandal, Rove denied his
involvement, saying that he did not even know who Plame was at the time of the
leak. "Well, I'll repeat what I said to ABC News when this whole thing broke
some number of months ago. I didn't know her name and didn't leak her name."


McClellan Said Rove Never Told Reporters that Plame Worked for CIA. In October
of 2003 White House Press Secretary, Scott McCllelan was asked during a White
House Briefing, "Scott, earlier this week you told us that neither Karl Rove,
Elliot Abrams nor Lewis Libby disclosed any classified information with regard
to the leak. I wondered if you could tell us more specifically whether any of
them told any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA?" McClellan
responded by noting that Rove and the others had assured him that they had not
leaked any classified information. "Those individuals - I talked - I spoke with
those individuals, as I pointed out, and those individuals assured me they were
not involved in this. And that's where it stands."

McClellan Said He Knew Karl Rove, and Karl Rove Would Never Do Something Like
Leaking. White House Spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that, "I've known
Karl for a long time, and I didn't even need to go ask Karl, because I know the
kind of person that he is, and he is someone that is committed to the highest
standards of conduct*It is not something I needed to ask him, but I like to,
like you do, verify things and make sure that it is completely accurate. But I
knew that Karl would not be involved in something like this." 9/29/03]

But Now That the Heat Is On, Rove Changes His Story

Rove's Lawyer Confirmed He Had Contact with Reporters About Plame. During
interviews with the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek magazine, Rove's personal
lawyer, Robert Luskin, revealed that Rove had spoken to Time magazine reporter
Matthew Cooper days before Bob Novak ran his column outing Valerie Plame, and
that Cooper interviewed Rove for his story on Plame. The same Newsweek article
also contained quotes from "lawyers representing clients sympathetic to the
White House" that said internal Time magazine emails between Cooper and his
editors, identify Rove as Cooper's source. These admission contradicted earlier
statements by White House staff that Rove had not revealed Plame's identity to
any reporters.

White House "Concerned" That Rove is Focus of Prosecutor's Investigation.
According to Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, Rove has testified before the Grand
Jury "two or three times." According to a lawyer "representing clients
sympathetic to the White House", Rove's repeated visits to the Grand Jury has
begun to make the administration "concerned" that Rove is a target of the
special prosecutor.

Not The First Time: Rove and Novak

Rove Was Fired For Leaking A Damaging Story About GOP Fundraiser. Esquire's Ron
Suskind reported that, "Sources close to the former president Bush] say Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he
planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with
campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr. It was smoked
out, and he was summarily ousted." 1/2003 Issue]

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[LiberalEsto]

1. Excellent press release

but watch, the Korprit Media will ignore it as usual.

[Gloria]

2. For the DNC to stick its neck out like this....there must be something

really cooking....

[peacetalksforall]

3. Good show, DNC and Finney. Keep it up. n/t

[Coexist]

4. Yes - thank you - leadership speaks up again

nominated.

Give 'em hell, Howard (and staff)!

[lateo]

5. Stike a fork in Rove...

If the Democrats grow a set of balls he is done.

[Fridays Child]

6. Ancient Buddhist koan:

What is the sound of one frog marching?

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. OOooooh! Must've missed that one!

:rofl:

[Fritz67]

7. Rove: Lying Sack of Shit

That sums it up well, I think.

[applegrove]

8. That's why Ari had to leave. They needed someone who didn't know

the truth so could spread their lies and do it well because he was a pasty and wasn't in the 'circle' at the time.

[sundancekid]

10. and that's also why Tenet had to leave ... the skeletons will return!

[Toots]

9. Would love it if Rove perjured himself also if Novak perjured himself also

Please let it be so. Novak and Rove found guilty of Perjury.

[oxbow]

11. Way to go DNC!

another couple of knockout punches like this and I might start supporting you again

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Nominated

[Maestro]

13. Democrats in attack mode.

I love it and about time. I am so glad to see the DNC do this. Let's just bury the DLC and move this party forward.

[eridani]

14. This means the DNC gets money from me

Let's reinforce good behavior. Tell them why they are getting the money.

[mzmolly]

15. Great idea!

:hi:

[nannah]

16. "I didn't know her name and didn't leak her name"

Michael Issakoff was on Air America this morning talking about the Rove/Plame outing. He suggested that Rove might have said to Cooper something like, "wilson's wife is a CIA operative." In this statement, he is not identifying her by name, he is not leaking her name, he is not admitting knowing her name.... her professional name was different than her married name.



"Rove Claimed He Did Not Know Who Plame Was. In August of 2004,
facing questions of his role in the Plame leak scandal, Rove denied his
involvement, saying that he did not even know who Plame was at the time of the
leak. "Well, I'll repeat what I said to ABC News when this whole thing broke
some number of months ago. I didn't know her name and didn't leak her name."



McClellan Said Rove Never Told Reporters that "Plame Worked for CIA". In October
of 2003 White House Press Secretary, Scott McCllelan was asked during a White
House Briefing, "Scott, earlier this week you told us that neither Karl Rove,
Elliot Abrams nor Lewis Libby disclosed any classified information with regard
to the leak. I wondered if you could tell us more specifically whether any of
them told any reporter that "Valerie Plame worked for the CIA?"

There seems to be consistent pattern of denying identifying "Valerie Plame" which may well be provably true, making the statement honest in the letter but not the spirit. Enough confusion to dodge a charge of perjury???????

[Sparkly]

17. I love Howard Dean's DNC!!!

Keep it going, DNC!!

And let's keep the DNC going!!

Link to contribute:
https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute

[stickdog]

19. kick

[Algorem]

20. Speaking of Rove,he was supposed to be on an NPR talk show,but isn't.

Which might make it seem like he has something to hide.Friday morning on her NPR show,Diane Rehm announced that Rove told her he'd be a guest on her show sometime this week.Of course,the Lawrence O'Donnell revelation on the McGlaughlin Group aired on Friday night.The Rehm show filled in the last space on this week's schedule on their webpage last night,which was today at 10 AM.I was waiting to see if it would be Rove.It's not.

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/