Rove Told Reporter About CIA Role But Gave No Name, Attorney Says

The Washington Post ^ | Monday, July 11, 2005 | Josh White

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified as a covert agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer said yesterday that his client did not identify her by name.

Rove had a short conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper on July 11, 2003, three days before Robert D. Novak publicly exposed Plame in a column about her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV.

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Luskin said yesterday that Rove did not know Plame's name and was not actively trying to push the information into the public realm.

Instead, Luskin said, Rove discussed the matter -- under the cloak of secrecy -- with Cooper at the tail end of a conversation about a different issue. Cooper had called Rove to discuss other matters on a Friday before deadline, and the topic of Wilson came up briefly. Luskin said Cooper raised the question.

"Rove did not mention her name to Cooper," Luskin said. "This was not an effort to encourage Time to disclose her identity. What he was doing was discouraging Time from perpetuating some statements that had been made publicly and weren't true." SNIP

After the investigation into the leak began, Luskin said, Rove signed a waiver in December 2003 or January 2004 authorizing prosecutors to speak to any reporters Rove had previously engaged in discussion, which included Cooper and anyone else.

"His written waiver included the world," Luskin said. "It was intended to be a global waiver. . . . He wants to make sure that the special prosecutor has everyone's evidence. That reflects someone who has nothing to hide."

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"Rove had a short conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper on July 11, 2003, three days before Robert D. Novak publicly exposed Plame in a column about her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV. "

HELP!!!! Why is Cooper being asked to testify if Novak wrote the article? My question still is, "Where did NOvak get the name?" That is the crime here.

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...this is big news?

I don’t understand why this is such a big story right now. People are dieing in terrorist attacks all over the world this week alone: London 52(?), Turkey 20, Afghanistan (?), and Iraq (?)… Terrorists are killing people all over the world from Russia to Indonesia, yet you wouldn’t know it because the Main Stream Media sanitizes our news…

Nothing to see, keep moving, no problems, nothing to see…

Holtz
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