Journalist denies Rove named CIA agent (Financial Times BS Spin "report")

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Karl Rove, deputy White House chief of staff and the top political adviser to US President George W. Bush, did not reveal the name of a covert CIA agent at the centre of a politically charged investigation, according to grand jury testimony from a Time magazine reporter.

The investigation concerns whether top administration officials broke US laws in an effort to undermine a high-profile critic of the Iraq war.

Matt Cooper, the reporter who escaped a jail sentence when he agreed to testify in the case, told the investigation last week that Mr Rove had tried to discredit Joseph Wilson, a former US ambassador, by challenging Mr Wilson's version of a 2002 investigation into whether Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator, was trying to buy uranium from Niger.

Mr Rove told the reporter that the Niger investigation had not been ordered by the director of the CIA, but that instead Mr Wilson was sent to the African country on a low-level mission at the suggestion of his wife, a covert agency operative working on weapons of mass destruction.

But Mr Cooper told the grand jury he was certain that Mr Rove had never used the name of Mr Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, and never indicated she was a covert operative.

More if you can stomach it: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20050717&ID=4968355



(I know this story has been covered, but I felt that it would be good to see Rovian Journalism at work.)

[dogday]

1. I also have a good article and it is true

I taped the face the nation on my computer this am and heard with my own ears that Rove revealed information to Cooper. He states emphatically the rove told him about Joe Wilson's wife.


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1083895,00.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. They are going on the "He never said the name" defense...

Just Wilson's wife.

Jon Stewart had all kinds of fun with that BS last week.

[hippiechick]

5. "It depends on what the definition of 'name' is .... "

... I can just see Rove and the freepers now, employing the BigDog's defense of (what 'is' is) that they so totally derided back during the Impeachment bullshit.

Yet when THEY do it, it will be perfectly reasonable. :eyes:

[Mass]

4. And when talking of George W,, if you say "Laura Bush's husband"

are you not naming it?

[swag]

2. I agree - they buried the lead graph so far down, it's not even in the

article.

Further, that's a weird piece of headline writing.

LFT usually does better. And this paragraph from later in the article lifts little dirt from the surface:

"The testimony from Mr Cooper which he detailed in Time magazine on Sunday will do little to clear up the question of whether Mr Rove or other top administration officials could face criminal charges. The investigation, headed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, is trying to determine whether officials broke the law by deliberately revealing the identity of Ms Plame."

[DanCa]

6. Who owns the finicial times. ?

And does the paper contribute to the gop?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Pearson, PLC

Editor is Andrew Gowars (Formerly of Reuters)


British.

[reprobate]

8. The law says 'identify' not name. Any spin on that is a lie.

If identifying her as "Joseph Wilson's wife" doesn't meet that test, we now live in never-land.