Stephen Hadley's role in the leak

[maddezmom]

Rove e-mailed White House security official about reporter conversation


By John Solomon / Associated Press

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WASHINGTON -- After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview and said he tried to steer the journalist away from allegations the operative's husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.

The July 11, 2003, e-mail between Rove and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley is the first showing an intelligence official knew Rove had talked to Matthew Cooper just days before the Time magazine reporter wrote an article identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA officer.

"I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press, recounting how Cooper tried to question him about whether President Bush had been hurt by the new allegations.

more:http://www.detnews.com/2005/politics/0507/18/polit-249694.htm

Rove-Bush Conspiracy Noose Tightens

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The second new fact is what Rove did after his conversation with Cooper.

Although supposedly in a rush to leave on vacation, Rove e-mailed Stephen J. Hadley, then Bush’s deputy national security adviser (and now national security adviser). According to the Associated Press, Rove’s e-mail said he “didn’t take the bait” when Cooper suggested that Wilson’s criticisms had hurt the administration.

While it’s not entirely clear what Rove meant in the e-mail, the significance is that Rove immediately reported to Hadley, an official who was in a position to know classified details about Plame’s job. In other words, the e-mail is evidence that the assault on Wilson was being coordinated at senior White House levels.

Cooper also told the grand jury that his second source on the allegations about the Niger trip and Wilson’s wife was Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a leading neoconservative advocate for invading Iraq. According to Cooper, Libby said on a not-for-attribution basis about Plame, “Yeah, I’ve heard that, too.”

more:http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071805.html

[joemurphy]

1. Funny thing....

In his zeal to defend Rove, Luskin leaks Rove's memo to Hadley. In the process we see that the conspiracy to defame Wilson goes to the NSC and Condoleezza Rice. Hadley was the loyal soldier that took the fall for Rice on the Niger uranium claiming he had never passed on the CIA Memo debunking it to Condi. His tendered resignation was refused and in the second Bush administration he is rewarded with Condi's old job at NSC while Condi moves to State.

It's so smelly. But no one smells the stench but us.

[Straight Shooter]

2. "I didn't take the bait."

Nice piece of self-serving work, Rove. Why even bother contacting Hadley by e-mail to tell him about this? What was the point, except to cover your tracks in the future?

This is total BS. How many other "sensitive" stories has Rove e-mailed Hadley to let him know he "didn't take the bait"? I'm hoping this e-mail will open the door to allowing Fitzgerald to subpoena all e-mails from Rove to those and from those who would have access to classified information about Plame and/or Wilson.

Rove might soon find out that a law degree rather than a bully degree would have helped him in his politics of personal destruction.

[Supersedeas]

3. wasn't Hadley the one who accepted responsiblity for the yellow cake

reference being in the SotU b/c Condi was too chickenshit to be accountable?

[maddezmom]

4. pretty much...read this

45 P.M. EDT

MR. BARTLETT: For the groundrules for this session today, both myself, as well as Steve Hadley will be on the record to discuss today's update to Friday's briefing. And I do want to start by -- because there are some people who were here and other people who were not, the fact that I am on the record today to talk a little bit about and recap the discussion from Friday, which I think is very important. After the discussions by the administration about the State of the Union process, the Chief of Staff Andy Card was -- directed his office to make sure that we get to the bottom of the process.

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As I said in the briefing on Friday, that the recollection -- and Steve Hadley is here to talk at more length about this -- that his own recollection of the conversation we reported between himself and Director Tenet was focused on the fact of the single sourcing of the 550 tons of uranium from Africa, which was Niger, and that there was a concern about the sourcing, the single sourcing in a speech like this. And that's what I explained then; it's what other administration officials explained.

But as we have gone forward and looked for -- and to make sure that we're being as responsive as possible, we have now found memos relating to the Cincinnati speech -- not to the State of the Union speech, but to the Cincinnati speech -- that was found over the weekend by Mike Gerson, who shared this information with Steve. And in the memo, itself, it is a memo from the Director to Mike Gerson and Steve Hadley. And Steve is going to talk more about that here in a minute. So this is, like I said, new information that we have, through our process, have found paperwork to the Cincinnati speech. We had spent a lot of time looking at all the drafts and all the files on the State of the Union address. But we've now, as members have gone back and looked through their old files, have found the information on the Cincinnati speech. And in these memos there is a direct reference to the concerns about the British reporting that was shared with the White House.

Steve Hadley is the most -- as Deputy National Security Advisor, is the most senior person in the White House that is in charge of vetting for substantive purposes the President's State of the Union address and other key speeches when it pertains to national security. And I'd like for him to go ahead and make some comments about that now.



http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030722-12.html

[Supersedeas]

5. perfect...great link M...ty mucho

[snippy]

6. Hadley was a member of the White House Iraq Group (the "WHIG").

The WHIG was given the responsibility of "marketing" the invasion of Iraq based on a campaign of lies. Among those lies was the creation of the white paper containing the first mention of the yellowcake lies. The WHIG also likely was responsible for what Court of Appeals Judge Tatel called the "plot against Wilson," and as part of that plot, responsible for planning and coordinating the disclosure of Plame's identity.