Rove, O'Reilly slam NY Times for 'outing' of CIA agent

[kpete]

Rove critical of NY Times for ‘outing’ CIA agent

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Uncategorized | Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Former presidential aide Karl Rove has been widely suspected of having played a major role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. These suspicions have never been fully dispelled, even when former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged he was the person who gave Plame’s name to columnist Robert Novak, who then revealed it in print.

On Tuesday, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly suggested to Rove that the New York Times, in particular, had hounded him in the Plame affair, making it ironic that the Times itself recently revealed the name of a CIA interrogator.

“Last week, the New York Times outed a CIA agent — I’m not going to mention his name — who interrogated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” said O’Reilly. “The CIA asked the New York Times not to do that, it obviously puts the CIA agent in danger because al Qaeda knows who he is, and they say, ‘Well, we’ll out anybody unless they’re under cover.’”

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http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/25/rove-critical-of-ny-times-for-outing-cia-agent/

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Oh Lord please let me live just long enough to see this prick hauled

off in hand cuffs and shackles.

[Vickers]

2. "we’ll out anybody unless they’re under cover"

How can you "out" someone that's not undercover?

:shrug:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. is there a suitable irony icon available?

these are directed at the usual suspects, not OP, btw

[onehandle]

4. Dicks of a feather... nt

[johnaries]

5. Who outed him to the NYT?

That's the criminal.