Latest on KKKarl Rove....

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Questions Remain on the Leaker and the Law
Rove's Talks With Time Writer May Be a Focus

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; A02

The jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday put the issue of press freedom and the confidentiality of sources on front pages across the country, but the heart of the case remains what it has been from the outset: whether senior Bush officials broke the law in the disclosure of a CIA covert operative's identity...<snip>...(SP) Patrick J. Fitzgerald has spent the better part of two years trying to answer that question, in a case that grew out of the angry debate over whether President Bush and his advisers hyped or falsified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war with Iraq....<snip>...a fast-moving series of decisions over the past week involving Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper have brought a renewed public focus on what role White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove may have played in disclosing the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame...(WH) spokesman long ago asserted that Rove was "not involved" in disclosing Plame's identity. Rove, who has testified before a grand jury investigating the case, likewise has maintained that he did not break the law, saying in a television interview, "I didn't know her name, and I didn't leak her name."
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At the height of the fury over Wilson's charges, in a column published July 14, 2003, Robert D. Novak wrote that Wilson was married to Plame, and cited two senior administration officials saying she was behind the decision to send her husband on the trip. The outcry over the revelation eventually forced the administration to turn to Fitzgerald to investigate, with Bush saying he was eager to get to the bottom of the case. The president and a number of top administration officials have since been called...<snip>...After Time turned over its documents late last week, Newsweek reported that e-mail records showed that Rove was one of Cooper's sources on Plame and Wilson...<snip>...evidence points to Rove as the source Cooper was seeking to protect -- although what information was provided is not clear...<snip>...Cooper on Wednesday agreed to testify in the case, reversing his long-standing refusal after saying that he had been released from his pledge of confidentiality just hours before he expected to be sent to jail for contempt of court.

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<link> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702215.html

[pgh_dem]

1. So when does Cooper testify, will we know it when he does? n/t

[emulatorloo]

2. "I didn't know her name, and I didn't leak her name"

no need to even comment on the highly parsed nature of that statement

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3. Who said that, KKKarl Rove?

....What a lying pile of shit!

[yellowcanine]

4. Exactly - he only leaked the info that Wilson's wife was CIA. No need to

mention her name, since THAT was in the public record.