Flash ! NYT: Rove Held Phone Talk !!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://nytimes.com/2005/07/15/politics/15rove.html?hp&ex=1121486400&en=bac819afc84e3590&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer


By DAVID JOHNSTON
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 15, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said.

Rick McKay/Cox News Service
At a demonstration outside the White House sponsored by MoveOn.org, the Democratic-leaning advocacy group, protesters called for the firing of Karl Rove, the presidential adviser.



Chronicle of a Leak

The White House on the Leak

White House Quotes on the C.I.A. Leak Case (July 11, 2005)
At Leak Inquiry's Center, a Circumspect Columnist (Dec. 31, 2004)
Wilson: What I Didn't Find in Africa (July 6, 2003)

Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer, who was referred to by her maiden name, Valerie Plame, and the circumstances in which her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, traveled to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq, the person said.

After hearing Mr. Novak's account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist: "I heard that, too."

The previously undisclosed telephone conversation, which took place on July 8, 2003, was initiated by Mr. Novak, the person who has been briefed on the matter said.

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1. One more paragraph - What did the President know?

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The disclosure of Mr. Rove's conversation with Mr. Novak raises a question the White House has never addressed: whether Mr. Rove ever discussed that conversation, or his exchange with Mr. Cooper, with the president. Mr. Bush has said several times that he wants all members of the White House staff to cooperate fully with Mr. Fitzgerald's investigation.

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[bullimiami]

3. all of them. the whole corrupt house full. what did they know and

when did they know it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Thanks for the update. I was asleep while all you good DUers

were piecing this all together !!!

[emulatorloo]

2. self-delete

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

5. WTF?

Mr. Fitzgerald has questioned a number of high-level administration officials. Mr. Rove has testified three times to the grand jury. I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has also testified. So has former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. The prosecutor also interviewed Mr. Bush, in his White House office, and
Mr. Cheney, but they were not under oath.

What's w/ this "not under other" bull? Unbelievable!

[emulatorloo]

6. seems to be Bush and Cheney's standard deal - we'll testify, but not under

oath. . .