Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer

NY Times ^ | July, 15, 2005 | DAVID JOHNSTON

[Carling]

This article vindicates Rove.

I was wondering if I was the only one thinking this.

[jveritas]

Exactly, but the defeated NYT writes in a way to take this vindication away.

[conservativepoet]

It looks like Wilson's admission tonight on CNN has upstaged the NY Time's supposed scoop.

[macsmind76]

too bad "Good Ole Mr. Wilson" blew the whole "convert wife" crap on Wolf Blitzer tonight!

Dooah!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Still no cigar. The closer you get in time to Novak's column with Rove only acknowledging INFORMATION PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE MEDIA, the better this whole picture looks. I still think there is some chance that Novak's original source was someone formerly in the administration, maybe even someone formerly in the CIA (and not necessarily during Bush's administration).

I sort of like this information - it does nothing to worsen the situation for Rove - but you can bet that Ted Kennedy, et. al. will be apoplectic over the weekend with this. Go ahead and make my day Ted. Collapse on the floor of the Senate while exuding gaseous vapors.

[PilloryHillary]

Is this all they've got? Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Some scoop!!!!

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Pres. Bush & his White House Officials looked very worried earlier today. BWAHAHAHA! No wonder this is a friday story. It vidicates Rove!

[slowhand520]

"Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover"

Take that and compare it with Wilson admitting on Wolf Blitzer tonight that she was not undercover when the Novak article was written and you have a repudiated story. Talk about splitting hairs

[spyone]

Joe Wilson is a wrong way charlie. He just can't help making himself look like an ass no matter what he tries to do. Maybe he should try fading away.

[Perdogg]

It's sounds like all roads lead to Miller to me.

[Catphish]

All this does is bolster the story that Rove's lawyer put out before - that Rove wasn't actively shopping Valorie Plame's name about and that in fact, he didn't even know anything other than the fact that he was Wilson's wife. This whole thing is absurd. The prosecuter's report which should completly absolve Rove can't come soon enough.

[Finalapproach29er]

Prosecutor ought to subpeona this writer and tell these anonomous sources.

[savedbygrace]

Here's the money quote:

The revelation of Mr. Rove's conversation with Mr. Novak raises a question the White House has never addressed: whether Mr. Rove ever described that conversation, or his conversation with Mr. Cooper, with the president.

This is what the left is aiming for. This whole thing has been orchestrated with this goal in mind, to tie President Bush himself into it.

[Perdogg]

i think he should keep running his fat mouth, cause when the shoes drops it is going to drop on him.

[CFC__VRWC]

Do they really think they're going to be able to use this story as a stepping stone to derailing President Bush's second term? This story's taken so many Byzantine twists and turns and double-backs upon itself that even people who follow it closely are getting a headache! Average people who aren't political junkies are just going to throw up their hands in frustration.

[CharlesWayneCT]

lovely misleading headline for an article. It sounds like he was talking about Valerie in a conference call.

Instead, this seems to suggest that Novak told Rove about Plame working in the CIA, and about how Plame got Wilson the gig.

This would explain why Rove would think there was nothing wrong with mentioning it in passing to another reporter later. If you learned something from a reporter, you wouldn't think it was a secret.

[HawaiianGecko]

 

 

	"The person who provided the information about Mr. Rove's conversation with Mr. Novak declined to be identified, citing requests by Mr. Fitzgerald that no one discuss the case."   Anyone else see the humor in that statement?

 

[spyone]

Can anyone explain to me why Novak hasn't been supeoned?

[Shermy]

"The conversation between Mr. Novak and Mr. Rove seemed almost certain to intensify the question about whether one of Mr. Bush's closest political advisers play"

This is hilarious! How the NYT tells its readers to think opposite of the information given!

What the article intensifies is who is the "not a partisan gunslinger" and who the reporters who told Rove are! Judith Miller?

[Doctor Raoul]

All of that liberal Democrat, Crazy Joe sourced, "Rove leaked it to Novak" BS has now been throughly discredited. How can you leak something that is ALREADY KNOWN?

Since the Democrats rely on hysterical rhetoric, why EVER take them seriously?

[Shermy]

"Here's the money quote:

The revelation of Mr. Rove's conversation with Mr. Novak raises a question the White House has never addressed: whether Mr. Rove ever described that conversation, or his conversation with Mr. Cooper, with the president.

This is what the left is aiming for."

Yes, but doesn't the article undermine that aim? Rather than a selective leak it indicates reporters told Rove first (as they did with Libby).