It is fairly clear that Rove identified her as a CIA Officer by her title as the Ambassador's wife rather than by her name. When asked about his knowledge of the leak Rove said he did not identify her name. That is about as close to lying as one can get without actually uttering an untruth. The intent was to deceive and it was very Clintonesque.
I have serious heartburn about Karl Rove because of his role in defining the Administration's Hispandering strategy. I'm pretty much convinced by the arguments that Plume's CIA status was common knowledge in Washington. Nevertheless, it won't hurt my feelings at all if this episode absolutely emasculates Rove. He has done a lot of damage to America by putting the good of the GOP in front of the good of the country.
IMO the good of the GOP IS is the good of the country. Democrats thinking otherwise so what?
You have the context confused first Cooper's call was about Joe Wilson coming out in the media and saying the President was lying about the yellow cake incident.
Cooper had called Rove about Wilson's claim that the White House was lying about Saddam having tried to buy yellow cake from Africa. Rove told Cooper that Wilson's report did indeed confirm Saddam had tried to by yellow cake (which is true) but that also there were other sources that showed the same thing (which is also true).
When asked why Wilson was sent to Africa in the first place Karl Rove stated that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA and had lobbied for and won his appointment (which coincidently is against the law).
There isn't any attempt to "out" Ms Plame he was simply stating how Joe Wilson came by that assignment, Joe Wilson by the way denied that his wife got him the job (a lie as proven by the 9-11 commission).
What monumental BS.
I have serious heartburn about Karl Rove
Poor baby.