Is This Proof That Rove Did It?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, The War On TerrorismIn grand jury testimony, Rove claimed that he had not known that Plame was a CIA agent until after reading Robert Novak’s column which was published on July 14th, 2004.
However, as this excerpt from Newsweek reveals, he had talked to Matt Cooper on July 11th, 2004.
NEWSWEEK obtained a copy of the e-mail that Cooper sent his bureau chief after speaking to Rove. [...] Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a “big warning” not to “get too far out on Wilson.” Rove told Cooper that Wilson’s trip had not been authorized by “DCIA”–CIA Director George Tenet–or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, “it was, KR said, wilson’s wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.”
However, the only monkey wrench? Rove could have possibly had prior access to Novak’s column BEFORE the publish date. In my mind, that doesn’t matter, because if the information wasn’t publicly available, how could anybody know it was leaked.
This just goes back to the fact that partisan hacks like Novak should be marginalized. In this day and age, we can’t give this much power to reporters who parrot verbatim ideology from a Washington insider and have them pass it off as news. This process completely shreds objectivity, and at that point, they’re a propagandist and should be fired immediately.
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July 10th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
Heh. Huffington’s Toast was already all over it.
July 10th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Nice catch. Pretty funny stuff.
But will he wriggle out of this one? That’s the $87 Billion question…