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Lawyer Tells 'Wash Post' Rove Did Nothing Wrong
EditorandPublisher.com ^ | July 2, 2005 - 10PM | E&P Staff

Posted on 07/02/2005 7:43:38 PM PDT by summer

NEW YORK An attorney for Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, confirmed to the Washington Post on Saturday that his client did speak with Time magazine's Matthew Cooper in July 2003. But the lawyer said Rove never identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative to Cooper in those conversations.

The attorney, Robert Luskin said that Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the Plame case, assured him in October and again last week that Rove is not a target of his investigation.

"Karl did nothing wrong. Karl didn't disclose Valerie Plame's identity to Mr. Cooper or anybody else," Luskin told the Post. Luskin said the question remains unanswered: "Who outed this woman? ... It wasn't Karl."

..."Cooper has said that more than one confidential source is identified in his e-mails and the notes of interviews he conducted in July 2003," the Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cialeak; karlrove; robertluskin; rove
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To: summer
This is Valerie Plame and she is a secret agent of some sort.

OK, it was me. You journalists are off the hook.

21 posted on 07/02/2005 8:25:39 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup (The cheese stands alone.)
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To: rface

That about sums it up for O'Donnell and the Dems. Dreaming of a scandal is all they have left. That's why the liberal press screamed for a special prosecutor, even though

1. They knew no crime was committed.

2. They lost important legal protections in a Supreme Court case.

3. One of their reporters may go to prison.

None of that matters because they hate Bush so much and they are so very, very desperate for a scandal that they have lost their minds.

That's why O'Donnell said what he did. They are at the point of throwing anything against the wall and hoping it will stick. These people will do anything - lie, forge documents, even send themselves to prison if it means getting sweet revenge on Bush.

You have to understand that for liberals, their politics is their religion, and they are in a holy war against conservative Christians (like the Muslims). Religious fervor is more about emotion than logic.

The more successful Republicans become, the more preposterous and desperate their reaction will be.


22 posted on 07/02/2005 8:27:05 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: stinkerpot65

MSNBC should order O'Donnell to resign, immediately. He is not only spreading lyings, but is now out right committing comments which are libel.


23 posted on 07/02/2005 8:30:18 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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To: South40

Re your post #18 - I honestly thought your post was intended to be sarcastic, but since you were not intending that, my apologies to you.


24 posted on 07/02/2005 8:30:26 PM PDT by summer
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To: rface

Sound like a site where DUers get their fantasies.


25 posted on 07/02/2005 8:31:04 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: rface; cyncooper; Mo1

I can't remember when I've seen SO MUCH misinformation and out and out lies in ONE paragraph.

Is that web site suppose to be a real representative of editors and publishers across this country?


26 posted on 07/02/2005 8:31:08 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: operation clinton cleanup

At the end of the tag, add a "height=375 width=500"

27 posted on 07/02/2005 8:31:34 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: operation clinton cleanup

Wilson is in love with himself and his image, isnt he?


28 posted on 07/02/2005 8:31:58 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: cyncooper

Re your post #16 - You are very welcome. And, I understand what you were trying to say on the other thread about this whole matter, with this being old news re Karl Rove talking to someone. These reporters like Lawrence O'Donnell seem to me the type who WANT to scream "FIRE" in a theater, whether there's a fire or not.


29 posted on 07/02/2005 8:32:35 PM PDT by summer
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To: summer

Apology accepted. My post was not intended to be sarcastic just to the point...that being...who wouldn't want and expect their lawyer to say his client didn't do it?


30 posted on 07/02/2005 8:33:19 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: stinkerpot65
All the Bush-haters will be suicidal when they see their last chance at a scandal go down the drain.




We just need screamy Howeird Dean to come out and sling more mud on the walls, because nothing will stick, and who care!?! They are just a laughing stock with none of their own political proposals (D's a shipwreck without a rudder and torn sails!!!)
31 posted on 07/02/2005 8:34:07 PM PDT by danamco
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To: Howlin

The great thing is that the more outrageous their lies and exagerrations become, the less the public will believe their accusations against Bush.

In the same vein, I wonder if the Klein book on Hillary was a plant to defuse future accusations against Hillary.


32 posted on 07/02/2005 8:34:24 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: BoBToMatoE
Re your post #20 -- "Cooper has said that more than one confidential source is identified in his e-mails"

Yeah -- I, too, found THAT was interesting. And THAT would have qualified as NEWS. I agree with you. IMO, you have better news judgment than O'Donnell.
33 posted on 07/02/2005 8:35:55 PM PDT by summer
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To: stinkerpot65

Thanks... I was to eager to expose myself as the exposer.


34 posted on 07/02/2005 8:35:59 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup (The cheese stands alone.)
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To: South40

Thanks. :)


35 posted on 07/02/2005 8:36:26 PM PDT by summer
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To: stinkerpot65

The thing is, though, that they have raised the bar so high now with their outrageous accusations that they are REALLY going to have to "go some," as my daddy use to say, to up the ante, if you will.

Can murder accusations be far away?


36 posted on 07/02/2005 8:36:31 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: operation clinton cleanup

No problem. That pic has been posted several times before.


37 posted on 07/02/2005 8:37:50 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: operation clinton cleanup
Re your post #21 - "...You journalists are off the hook."

LOL...
38 posted on 07/02/2005 8:38:04 PM PDT by summer
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To: L.N. Smithee

Old O'Donnell bought the farm
http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2004/10/the_dark_before.html

MR. O'DONNELL: Look, it's not our job to lie about war to make troops feel good. And I don't care what they feel.

MR. BLANKLEY: I don't --

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me finish.

MR. O'DONNELL: I don't care what they feel about the truth of this war. If John Kerry thinks this war is a mistake and if the United States of America elects him president, the troops are going to have to live with that. And they know better than anyone else whether it was a mistake or not.

MR. BUCHANAN: The commander-in-chief should not undermine the troops --

MR. O'DONNELL: He's not undermining anything.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you want to make a point here?

MR. BUCHANAN: He'd demoralize them.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: All right, the human --

MR. O'DONNELL: I don't care if they're demoralized. They have to go to war and be prepared --

MR. BUCHANAN: The commander-in-chief does care.

MR. O'DONNELL: -- to live with the debate that goes on in the United States about whether it's right or wrong.

MR. BUCHANAN: But if you're going to be commander-in-chief, you cannot be demoralizing the troops in wartime, even if you think the war is a mistake.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000699.htm ( Lawrence O'Donnell screamed at John O'Neill scenario)Think he is related to Rosie? ;)


39 posted on 07/02/2005 8:39:17 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Howlin
Wilson is in love with himself and his image, isnt he?

He was a 3rd rate diplomat that got nowhere on his talents and skills... had to ride his wife (no pun intended) to some level of notoriety.

40 posted on 07/02/2005 8:40:14 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup (The cheese stands alone.)
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