David Corn, The Nation: "Rove Did Leak Classified Information"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=5857

"The fact is, Karl Rove did not leak classified information." So said Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican Party.

"I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name." So said Karl Rove of Valerie Wilson/Plame last year on CNN.

"He did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA." So said Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, after Newsweek reported Rove had been a source for Time magazine's Matt Cooper but before Newsweek revealed a Cooper email that said Rove had told Cooper that "wilson's wife...apparently works at the agency on wmd issues."

The White House may be stonewalling on the Rove scandal, but the Rove camp--aided by its echo-ists in the conservative media--has been busy establishing the twin-foundation for his defense: he did not mention Valerie Wilson/Plame by name; he did not disclose classified information. The first of these two assertions is misleading and irrelevant; the second is wrong.

[Kikosexy2]

1. Rove is...

a guilty scumbag...roast the PIG!!

[DemsUnited]

2. The Repukes seem to be backing away from the "name"

defense (which was becoming laughably ridiculous) in favor of the
"I'm an ignoramous" defense. Rove didn't "intentionally disclose" Plame's covert status because he "didn't know" she was covert.