Rove's Lawyer: "Cooper BURNED Rove"!!!

[writes2000]

Rove's lawyer is turning on Cooper now.

This is PERFECT!!! What an idiot!!! Piss off Cooper just before he's set to testify.

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200507121626.asp

"The lawyer for top White House adviser Karl Rove says that Time reporter Matthew Cooper "burned" Rove after a conversation between the two men concerning former ambassador Joseph Wilson's fact-finding mission to Niger and the role Wilson's wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, played in arranging that trip. Nevertheless, attorney Robert Luskin says Rove long ago gave his permission for all reporters, including Cooper, to tell prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about their conversations with Rove.


In an interview with National Review Online, Luskin compared the contents of a July 11, 2003, internal Time e-mail written by Cooper with the wording of a story Cooper co-wrote a few days later. "By any definition, he burned Karl Rove," Luskin said of Cooper. "If you read what Karl said to him and read how Cooper characterizes it in the article, he really spins it in a pretty ugly fashion to make it seem like people in the White House were affirmatively reaching out to reporters to try to get them to them to report negative information about Plame."

[joemurphy]

1. And this is the lawyer that gets paid in gold bars?

Karl needs a brighter lamp to represent him, methinks.

[SpiralHawk]

8. He's a Republican lawyer who defended the drug cartels

who paid him in gold bars. Now he's 'defending' Rove.

[quiet.american]

2. It's ALWAYS someone's fault, isn't it. n/t

[wallwriter]

3. That can mean one of two things:

When the Ubermeister of spin accuses you of outspinning him either

1) You are the biggest sly f***ing dog of all time

or

2) YOU ARE ACTUALLY TELLING THE TRUTH

(maybe both...)

[Lerkfish]

4. so...that's an admission of guilt, right?

I mean you don't "burn" someone if you falsely accusing them.

I hope this lawyer isn't paid a great deal...he's a idiot.

[Beaver Tail]

9. It depends on how you define Burn

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. Luskin is with Patton Boggs. Trust me...

he's paid QUITE handsomely.

[kenny blankenship]

5. So that's where that sizzling fat sound is coming from!

smells bad too.

[Double T]

6. Let The Finger Pointing And Vicious Accusations Begin Because....

I am certain Karl Rove Had Nothing To Do With Outing Valerie Plame.:sarcasm:

[lovuian]

7. This is survival of the fittest!!! Cooper is going to have to fight

here to keep out of of jail!!! Cause if Rove anything to do he's there

And it will be Rove didn't say that Denial unfortunately the email really screws Rove!!!

[Skidmore]

10. And does he expect this to make people feel sorry for Rove?

Rove has built up so much bad karma, that it's gonna bury him. Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

[applegrove]

11. REFRAME REFRAME REFRAME now Cooper who was willing to

go to jail is a liar. No wonder Miller is terrified.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. I think this is Luskin's SECOND mis-play of Cooper.

The first was when he said that Cooper wasn't remaining silent in order to protect Rove. That brilliant little remark gave Cooper the go-ahead to testify. "Hell, if Rove's mouthpiece says I'm not doing this for Rove, then I might as well not do it for Rove."

Brilliant indeed. I think this guy is used to having someone named Vito going around behind him & talking to people about the pain involved in smashed kneecaps.

[LeftNYC]

14. This smacks of real desperation

They are throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks. Fitzgerald's a Republican right? Surprised there hasn't been more of an effort to smear him. But this is a traditional Republican trick, when all else fails blame the media. Cooper burned Rove, please...Cooper reported what Rove wanted him to. They are running scared. And if why won't McClellan or Chimpy comment if poor Karl did nothing wrong. Clinton's balls would be in the deep fryer by now.

[Straight Shooter]

15. Oh, bullsh*t. They weren't trying to get them to report negative info.

Luskin is spinning this, too. Who said anything about the reporters claiming the WH was reaching out to report negative info about Plame? What we're concerned with, here, is reporting factual information about Plame. In connection therewith, they were trying to report negative information about Wilson, not Plame.

And notice how Luskin carefully avoids using the descriptor "Joe Wilson's wife."

Watch this snake, watch him very very carefully.

[NancyG]

16. Luskan admits Rove is a 'subject' of the investigation

He tries to obfiscate the fact that Rove is a 'subject' of the investigation, but there it is in this RW article.

"Luskin also addressed the question of whether Rove is a "subject" of the investigation. Luskin says Fitzgerald has told Rove he is not a "target" of the investigation, but, according to Luskin, Fitzgerald has also made it clear that virtually anyone whose conduct falls within the scope of the investigation, including Rove, is considered a "subject" of the probe. "'Target' is something we all understand, a very alarming term," Luskin says. On the other hand, Fitzgerald "has indicated to us that he takes a very broad view of what a subject is."

[msongs]

17. national Socialist Review - the latest fascisti news n/t

[Booster]

18. Saying something like this about anyone who goes against the

Bush cartel is the same as putting their name at the top of a hit list. Mr. Cooper should be very, very scared and for good reason.