This looks like Rove is guilty to me...

[FormerRepublican]

It has a bit more detail than the others I've seen. Apologies if it was previously posted.

"July 18 (Bloomberg) -- The fate of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove may rest with the old Watergate question: What did he know and when did he know it?

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the leaking of a Central Intelligence Agency agent's name is now focused on how Rove, one of President George W. Bush's closest advisers, and other administration officials dealt with a key fact in an equally key memo.

The memo, prepared by the State Department on July 7, 2003, informed top administration officials that the wife of ex-diplomat and Bush critic Joseph Wilson was a CIA agent. Seven days later, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was publicly identified as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

On the same day the memo was prepared, White House phone logs show Novak placed a call to White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, according to lawyers familiar with the case and a witness who has testified before the grand jury. Those people say it is not clear whether Fleischer returned the call, and Fleischer has refused to comment.

The Novak call may loom large in the investigation because Fleischer was among a group of administration officials who left Washington later that day on a presidential trip to Africa. On the flight to Africa, Fleischer was seen perusing the State Department memo on Wilson and his wife, according to a former administration official who was also on the trip."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=awksAN7mYRZY&refer=us

It is starting to sound as if the whole crew are going down on this one.

[Erika]

1. W's viciousness in going after Joe Wilson's wife

reminds me of W/Roves viciousness in his attacks on McCain and family. These are dirty people.

[notadmblnd]

4. I think they've been so vicious because they feel personally betrayed

Wilson worked for reagan and his dad as well as Clinton. They thought he was one of them and that he would go along. When he didn't, they were outraged and that's when the admin pulled out all stops to discredit him.

They acted out in anger and they ended up making a big mistake.

[Skittles]

2. I feel sick

it's easy for me to imagine a sick f*** like Karl Rove could blow the cover of a CIA agent for pure revenge but it is becoming increasingly clear to me that many, many others participated. They put the interests of the GOP so above those of America - it's nothing less than treason and it makes me sick.

[driver8]

8. These people are absolutely ruthless and do not care what happens

to others as long as they get their way. They are a bunch of thugs and bullies who use threats and smear tactics to get what they want.

They are despicable, hateful traitors. It makes me sick, too.

[Skittles]

9. I've always known that about bush inc

as a resident of Texas I have put up with that piece of shit bush for over TEN YEARS. What uttlerly floors me is how they are able to get average Americans to support them; it kills me no end because I think they are very transparent

[rumpel]

3. Great info. thanks

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

5. And judy 'media darling' miller

says she hasn't talked to her source in two years. Right around the time liari quit. Surprise, Surprise

[Garbo 2004]

6. One article reported that Miller spoke to Libby. Whoever it was must have

given up her name to the investigators/grand jury since Fitzgerald stated in court docs that he knows who her contact was and that person had come forward already.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

7. It wasn't liari?

Dang, but I'll bet he was still involved or he knew what was going on. The coincidence is stunning IMHO

[Garbo 2004]

11. Well reportedly Ari was on AF1 & saw the classified INR memo that

incorrectly said that Plame sent Wilson to Niger. Which appeared to be the source of the story Administration "senior officials" were peddling to the press. (So many articles I can't keep track of which one had that about Ari.) So Ari may not be out of the picture and likely was in the know.

But with Miller's connections to the Administration would she even bother with a "mere" press secty when she had bigger fish to chat with, especially those on the WH Iraq Group like Libby? Just musing. Anyway, her contact isn't anonymous to the prosecutor, has already waived confidentiality and testified and I still don't buy that Judy chose to go to jail to protect a known source and the first amenmdment. I wonder if she was a "carrier" of the info so it could blow back to the WH and then later they could claim, oh I heard it from the press.

[brettdale]

10. kick

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