Reply #10: sounds more like a confession of guilt [View All]

[dooner]

than a good excuse. Once you say "wilson's wife works for the CIA" you don't really need to say her actual name to be guilty of exposing her.

I actually think this article is quite an indictment of Mr. Rove... you may need to read the entire thing. I don't really understand how the Tenet disclaimer ties into Rove's defense, or the timeline:


"Rove did not mention her name to Cooper," Luskin said. "This was not an effort to encourage Time to disclose her identity. What he was doing was discouraging Time from perpetuating some statements that had been made publicly and weren't true."


"In particular, Rove was urging caution because CIA director George J. Tenet was about to issue a statement regarding Iraq's alleged interest in African uranium and its inaccurate inclusion in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address. Tenet took the blame for allowing a misleading paragraph into the speech, but Tenet also said that the president, vice president and other senior officials were never briefed on Wilson's report."