Check this out! Luskin changes his statement on Rove not being a target

[lancdem]

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/07/15/top/00rove.txt

Here's the graf:

"Karl provided all pertinent information to prosecutors a long time ago," Luskin said. "And prosecutors confirmed when he testified most recently in October 2004 that he is not a target of the investigation."

Until a few days ago, Luskin was saying Rove was not CURRENTLY a target. I don't have a link, but remember that generated discussion that he might be a subject instead? Now he only says Rove wasn't as target AS OF OCTOBER 2004.

That was nine months ago!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Please copy a couple of words. I don't want to sign up.

[Midnight Rambler]

2. bugmenot.com

Valuable public service

[Viking12]

4. 1st four paragraphs

WASHINGTON - Chief presidential adviser Karl Rove testified to a grand jury that he talked with two journalists before they divulged the identity of an undercover CIA officer but that he originally learned about the operative from the news media and not government sources, according to a person briefed on the testimony.

The person, who works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, told The Associated Press that Rove testified last year that he remembers specifically being told by columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, the wife of a harsh Iraq war critic, worked for the CIA.

Rove testified that Novak originally called him the Tuesday before Plame's identity was revealed in July 2003 to discuss another story.

The conversation eventually turned to Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who was strongly criticizing the Bush administration's use of faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, the person said.




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[lancdem]

7. I posted the graf that matters

It's later in the story.

[lancdem]

6. I changed the link

Sorry!

[Stand and Fight]

3. Post a few words....

I don't care to sign up for any services -- ZERO. Post a few words, please.

[Inland]

5. All we need to know: Is he a target? A subject?

A person of interest?

[libertypirate]

8. You forget....

It was just this month that Mr. Luskin made the point to say that Mr. Cooper's source was not Karl, and Karl had nothing to hid. Which prompted Cooper to testify....

[lancdem]

10. Yes, something HAS changed for Luskin to amend his statement

[Frances]

9. Then who told Novak?

nt

If it wasn't Rove, then who was it? (I believe it was Rove and another White House operative)

[wallwriter]

11. BWAH ah ah ah ah

So he wasn't a target in October 04, eh? What about July 05?

[lancdem]

12. Bingo

[The Night Owl]

13. Very nice catch!

[skip fox]

14. Listen to the first notes of the great unravelling.

We have been hearing these for a week. How long will the Republicans hold off from expressing their disgust, especially in light of the absurd spinning (out-right lying, actually, and their credibility is dangerously slipping as the facts are so easily corrected with the record)?

I'm guessing Rove and at least one other official will be indicted under the specific act of identifying a CIA agent, conspiring to identify the identity of a CIA agent, perjury (telling the FBI he never talked to reporters about Plame's position until after Novak's column), and possibly for using classified information for political gain.

Now we know the Rove is both a main source (for Cooper) and a confirming source for another (Novak, from whom he got Plame's name). With 6 initial sources and at least 3 confirming sources (both as reported), someone would have to coordinate the operation, assuring the initial callers that no two called the same source, that no one was overly eager, but would "drop it in," and a number of other officials would be ready and willing to confirm.


Therefore at least 2 people(Rove and Novak's initial source, perhaps Scooter Libby if today's reports pan out) served as main sources. (The fact that one source released Cooper from his agreement of confidentiality but one source did not release Miller also suggests at least 2 sources.) Rove would have to coordinate! To establish guidelines like: No source should call another's contact, Pitch the information off hand, not as the main subject, Make the contact think the source is trying to do him or her a favor ("Don't go too far out on this Wilson thing, I don't want you burnt."), etc. AND Rove would have had to field a group of officials to support the sources stories.

I say Rove coordinated because it is obvious he did so since anyone in the administration in possession of the Plame-Wilson-CIA link would have gone straight to the world master of deceitful politics, and now we know Rove was at least one of the leakers.

So, we could have at least 2 indictments for Rove (exposing and conspiring to expose) and (perhaps) 1 or more indictments for others (Novak and/or Miller's source). Not to mention exposure of those who condoned and confirmed the exposure.

I think the great thing we have going for us on this case is Patrick Fitzgerald. By all accounts a fine prosecutor.


Wow.