"When Did The President Learn That Karl Rove Had Leaked To Journalists?"

[ruggerson]

The White House press corps finally grows a set.

A snowball just whizzed by Satan's head.

[Cha]

1. Did you hear that at the

press conference with scotty?

[ruggerson]

3. Yep

Came from a reporter with whom I was not familiar

[WLKjr]

2. It's back to the same question that 9/11 people were saying

"What did the president know and when did he know it?"

[brettdale]

9. People should start marching to the White House now

and ask for impeachment!

[oasis]

4. Chimpy was eager to find out who the culprit was so he could fire him. At

that was his statement to the press when Plme story first broke. I hope it doesn't take the courage of a Micheal Moore to produce clips of Bush saying that to the press corps.

[peekaloo]

5. "A snowball just whizzed by Satan's head."

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

6. "A snowball just whizzed by Satan's head."

Brilliant.

[kestrel91316]

7. Bush didn't "learn" about Rove outing Plame ..............

Bush ordered Rove to out Plame in the first place.

Remember, he wanted revenge for Wilson insulting him by implying he lied about WMD/yellowcake.

[Octafish]

8. Thing is, someone with ULTRA SECRET clearance had Plame's name.

...And gave it to Rove. Otherwise, he never could have leaked it because her identity was one of the nation's top secrets.

As a Non-Offical Cover agent, Plame and her company were on a need-to-know basis. Only one pinhead residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had that clearance.

Here's more on it from Robert Parry and Consortiumnews.com:

Rove's Leak Points to Bush Conspiracy

By Robert Parry
July 11, 2005

A key national security principle for dealing with top-secret information, such as the identity of undercover CIA officers, is strict compartmentalization, often called “the need to know” – which raises the question why George W. Bush’s chief political adviser Karl Rove would know anything about the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.

The answer to that mystery – why was Rove involved – may be more crucial to unraveling who was behind the illegal leaking of Plame’s name and the subsequent cover-up than even the identity of which Bush officials passed the information to right-wing pundit Robert Novak for his infamous column on July 14, 2003.

But rather than focusing on how and why Rove knew about Plame, the latest controversy around the case has centered on whether Rove explicitly used her name in an interview with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper three days before Novak’s column.

Rove’s lawyer Robert Luskin told the Washington Post that his client didn’t identify Plame by name, only mentioning her in giving Cooper guidance about who was responsible for authorizing a fact-finding trip by Plame’s husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to Niger in February 2002.

According to an internal Time e-mail (obtained by Newsweek), Cooper informed his editor that Rove offered a “big warning” not to “get too far out on Wilson” and that “KR said” the Niger trip was authorized by “wilson’s wife, who apparently works at the agency (CIA) on wmd issues.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071105.html

We may see the whole bloody lot busted on treason charges, folks. Keep spreading the word on these bed-wetting bastards.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Decent questions.

--What national security purpose was served by giving Karl Rove a sensitive secret that, if leaked, could endanger the lives of covert intelligence operatives?

--Who attended White House meetings at which Wilson’s disclosures and Plame’s identity were discussed? How was Plame’s identity brought into these talks? By whom?

--Was George W. Bush present at any of these meetings? As the president, who is ultimately responsible for decisions about national security secrets, did Bush say anything about Wilson and Plame? If so, what did he say and to whom?

--Did Bush or anyone else in the White House order Rove to disparage Wilson?