Posted on 07/11/2006 10:51:06 PM PDT by brain bleeds red
WASHINGTON — Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
In a column, Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said.
"I have revealed Rove's name because his attorney has divulged the substance of our conversation, though in a form different from my recollection," Novak wrote. Novak did not elaborate.
A spokesman for Rove's legal team, Mark Corallo, said that Rove did not even know Plame's name at the time he spoke with Novak, that the columnist called Rove, not the other way around, and that Rove simply said he had heard the same information that Novak passed along to him regarding Plame.
"There was not much of a difference" between the recollections of Rove and Novak, said Corallo.
Novak said he is talking now because Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald told the columnist's lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to Novak has been concluded.
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Triggering the criminal investigation, Novak revealed Plame's CIA employment on July 14, 2003, eight days after her husband, White House critic and former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.
Novak's secret cooperation with prosecutors while maintaining a public silence about his role kept him out of legal danger and had the effect of providing protection for the Bush White House during the 2004 presidential campaign.
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The "Fitzgerald perpetrated a fraud upon the court" line of thinking is a good one to pursue - I wonder why Libby's lawyers are not going over Fitzgerald's statements to the judge justifying the expansion of his mission (and others) with a fine-toothed comb to find and highlight knowingly false statements that Fitzgerald has likely made to the court. Maybe that is the ace up their sleeve that they will pull out at the appropriate time if their other gambits fail. Fitzgerald has got to be sweating about that - and maybe a good deal of his bluster and his determination to continue the farcical prosecution of Libby is to distract attention from Fitz's own misdeeds. (with apologies for the mixed metaphors)
The simple answer is I have lost all respect for liberals. Why, oh why should we be respectful to those that have chosen to engage in behavior that could easily classify them as traitors. They have, at almost every turn, made an attempt to misinform and lie about every aspect on the war on terror. In doing so they have endangered our troops abroad and all of us here at home. I recognize that not every liberal is an enemy of America, but the ones that continue to attempt to sew seeds of lies, such as the libnut I was addresssing, have more than earned every drop of sarcasm and rudeness I can muster.
Actually, this would be plagiarism as the left now defines it for conservative commentary.
Matthews has spent the past 2 years kicking aroud Bush by kicking around Rove, even going to declare that the person identified in the Fitzgerald indictment as Government official A as Rove. Now Novak reveals that it is not Rove. Who is going to ask Chris Matthews when he will apologize for libeling Rove and spewing his filthy lies. I want to hear that son-of-a-bitch answer for his caprice. Mr. Fitzgerald has a few questions he needs to answer, such as "Why, once he discerned who leaked Plames name and that it was not a violation of law, did he continue on his fishing expedition?" He simply took his forum to expand his own personal agrandizement. Now he will look like the partisan monkey that he is. Fitzgerald is only a hairs-breath away from joining the Wisconsin professors and loons who assert that Bush attacked New York and the Pentagon. The liberal have gone off of the ledge and are in freefall, and the pathetic pricks cannot see because of their hate of Bush.
"Did you sign up last December just to tell us that exposing VP was a serious breach of security?"
No, I sign up last December because after a long debelitating illness from which my husband died that summer, I finally had the will and strength to get my first computer and reach out to the world. Also because my son was leaving for Iraq or Afghanistan in a few weeks, and I discovered FR would be a supportive location.
Brit Hume hosts Special Report. They're the same show...
We are supportive, and sympathize with you on your family situation. Thank you for your son's service. Now, with respect to Valerie Plame, I think she and her husband were the ones responsible for blowing her cover, and the CIA used her in an effort to attack an administration with which they disagree. It was a setup all along--"if they go after Joe, we're going to refer it to Justice." Too bad Ashcroft's minion fell for it, and referred it to that toad, Fitzgerald.
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