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

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

[CFC__VRWC]

Is this what your source led you to expect?

[freedrudge]

Drudge just changed to this headline

CLAIM: NOVAK ASKED ROVE ABOUT CIA OFFICER

[Doctor Raoul]

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

Novak willing appeared before the Grand Jury.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Oh, I guess they are now going to try to nail Rove for saying he never talked to Novak at all, but I don't recall him ever saying that. Or they suggest that he might not ahev told the President everything. My bet is that he did, which is why the President has never wavered in his support for Karl.

Remember, the accusation that started the firestorm in 2003 was that the White House actively peddled Plame's name and relationship to Wilson in order to discredit and punish him. This was what Matt Cooper wrote about in his orignal article. This fantasy has now been completely demolished. So the next attack was that whoever "leaked" Plame's name to Novak committed a crime. Ooops, that one's out the window too.

Do they really think America is going to demand Karl Rove's head on a platter because he talked to a reporter?

[woofie]

He testified freely is that good enough?

[CFC__VRWC]

Novak has been subpoenaed, and he has cooperated with Fitzgerald. That's why he isn't Judith Miller's cellmate right about now.

[Pukin Dog]

You mean that the NY Times is lying once again? Yes.

There is nothing to this, and the Times source for this little hit piece is no doubt Judith Miller. No one; I repeat NO ONE in the administration is talking about this. This is the media leaking to the media.

[okie01]

So, who is Novak's leak # 1?

Tennant or Foley. Neither is a "partisan gunslinger". Didn't Novak represent one of his sources as being familiar with the CIA?

Rove's source would've been Tennant. Or Judith Miller...

[Fledermaus]

that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover,

I see the NY Slimes likes to get the lies out there as soon as possible...in the first paragraph.

[sandbagger]

The Left's rabid hatred of Rove and Bush has contorted their positioning to the ludicrous point where they're "outraged" at the outing of a CIA desk jockey, when they hate the CIA almost as much as they do Bush. They're unwittingly paraphrasing a line from the brilliant "Animal House" "He can't do that to our agents. Only we can do that to our agents."

[Mo1]

A reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, who never wrote about the Plame case, refused to cooperate with the investigation and was jailed last week.

Interesting they should put this in there .. since she is involved somehow because she's sitting in jail for it

Also interesting the last paragraph about Rove having a say in the next USSC pick

[Dems_R_Losers]

It's Tenet. And he was fired. So guess what, folks, the President did keep his word, he did fire the real leaker.

[Cicero]

someone who has been officially briefed

Gee, that's really informative! Note that they don't even say that this is a government official. It could be Judith Miller.

And if "someone" is vague, just consider the vagueness of "officially briefed." What the hell does that mean? Briefed by an official? Briefed while wearing his decoder ring? Briefed in an office? Called in and told to write this story by Pinch Sulzberger?

[Fledermaus]

No, it means "we are making this crap up as we go along".

[small voice in the wilderness]

Citizen Plame. A sordid tale of a newspaper's attempt to create a mega-citizen out of whole cloth. Nothing is as it seems. And they will stop at nothing to protect...well..nothing.. Until they are spent. And alone with no anonymous sources. Or credible reporters. Or subscribers. The only sound that will be heard is a low, wimpering voice, calling quietly into the darkness: Rovebud....Rovebud...

[ClaudiusI]

I must be reading the article wrong, since it seems to indicate that Rove first learned of Plame's name from Novak. Wouldn't this, then, exonerate Rove of any wrongdoing?

[SevenofNine]

What story I don't see NO STORY WHATEVER NY LIARS Whatever LOL!!!

[Dems_R_Losers]

It probably means someone in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Probably the same person who tipped Judy Miller off about the Holy Land Foundation. That was Fitzgerald's investigation too. Somebody at DOJ doesn't like Fitzgerald and is singing to the NYT.

[Fledermaus]

Joe Wilson, and his Dem handlers, is a traitor and should be tried and, if convicted, shot.

[Mo1]

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

I'm thinking so