The author is one ugly Bush-hater.
It's not Rove, it's Scooter Libby. JMHO.
Ambitious people trying to make a name for themselves by linking the Bush Admin. DemoncRAT ploy? Absolutely!
They pursue this, they're cutting off all sources from the Whitehouse ever.
Everyone knew in d.c circles that plame was a cia agent and she was the one that sent wilson on the trip.
She wasn't a covert agent.
Rove was just defusing the lie that the cia or white house had sent plame on the trip, it was his wife.
This case is a joke everyone in poilitical circles knew who she was it would be like saying you outed george tenet at the cia, she wasn't a covert agent.
What a waste of time this case is. By the way I don't remember the liberal media going after Sandy Berger.
Actually, what doesn't pass the smell test is the notion Plume was a secret agent working on anything meaningful.
One thing we can conclude is that Rove saved journalist Cooper from going to jail by allowing Cooper to reveal his source. But Froomkin wouldn't concede an honorable motive on Rove's part.
Let's see, Plame was common knowledge with Washington reporters and they have to prove that Rove knew that she was an undercover agent, not that she simply worked for the CIA in order for there to have been a crime.
Not likely to get very far when it comes down to it.
Always get the possibly hurtful news out yourself, before everybody else. Or, like Hillary, pray that some clever 'enemy' will write a book about you and thereby innoculate you against even the most outrageous of criticisms that might surface once you openly state your intention to become the President of the United States.
Anybody got any proof that Plame was a covert, undercover agent? I haven't seen anything. Like the "Downing Street Memos" created by a Leftist kook, this is just another DemocRAT manufactured "scandal" that isn't going anywhere. Rove never mentioned Plame by name to anybody. No crime. The 'RATS need to try something else.
I thought it was rather odd that Wilson started ranting about Rove at the get-go. But it's obvious why the libs hate Rove. He keeps killing them politically.
My bet is the jounalists calls someone like Rove after they have the facts and all they want is confirmation ...In short Cooper and Miller and and Novac already knew it before they asked Rove anything
I say to all of them: Sandy Berger, Sandy Berger, Sandy Berger.
The real question is why is an 'Ambassodor' of the US being a critic of the President. An 'Ambassodor' job is to promote the interest of his country not stab it in the back.
"Does Rove's current position pass the smell test?"
Rove didn't give a name. That's the "identification" dispute.
And what about Cooper's other sources?
how much damage does it do to Wilson & Plame, now that they're exposed as LIARs and scumbags?
I don't think most people even have the faintest clue who Valery Plame is, or what it is that Rove is supposed to have done. The whole affair is convoluted, and it depends on propaganda that they ran a whole year ago. Her husband is dropped out of the spotlight, his book has gone from the remainder shelf to the pulp mills, and the only way they can revive this "scandal" is by reviving old lies that are now known to be lies.
The author is one ugly Bush-hater.
Please keep in mind that this article is reporting how other journalists reported as if it were the gospel truth - rumor mongering at its best. Let's get the facts, then decide. The reporters have already tried and convicted Rove on no evidence. Heck, to them he's an effigy of President Bush!