Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents

[steve2470]

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Leopold0716.htm

by Jason Leopold
www.dissidentvoice.org
July 16, 2005

Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison.

It now appears that Rove, President Bush's chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003 -- a federal crime -- when he was questioned by federal agents investigating who was responsible for leaking information about a covert CIA operative to the media.

During questioning by the FBI about his role in the Plame affair, Rove told federal agents that he only started sharing information about Plame with reporters and White House officials for the first time after conservative columnist Robert Novak identified her covert CIA status in his column on July 14, 2003, according to a report in the American Prospect about Rove's testimony in March 2004.

But Rove wasn't truthful with the FBI what with the recent disclosure of Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper's e-mails, which reveal Rove as the source for Cooper's own July 2003 story identifying Plame as a CIA operative, and show that Rove spoke to Cooper nearly a week before Novak's column was published and, according to previously published news reports, spoke to a half-dozen other reporters about Plame as early as June 2003.


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[ck4829]

1. Karl Rove to share cell with Lil Kim?

I actually feel sorry for Kim if it comes to that.

[jrthin]

2. Uh-oh. n/t

[Fuzz]

3. If true, I hope they pursue it

but I'm not convinced they would, unless they would be piling on to other stuff.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Would Rove do the time? Or could Fitzgerald roll him?

Somehow, I can't see him going to prison to protect Bush/Cheney...