DNC: Is it Possible That Rove Thinks We Can't Handle the Truth?

[struggle4progress]

To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Josh Earnest of the Democratic National Committee, 202-863-8148

<snip> Bush Testified In Front of the Grand Jury for Over an Hour. President Bush was interviewed for more than an hour by Fitzgerald, who is investigating whether White House officials deliberately leaked Plame's identity as a CIA operative. Fitzgerald and several assistants questioned the president for about 70 minutes in the Oval Office. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the substance of the interview. (Washington Post, 7/25/05)

Rove Told Cooper That It Was "Wilson's Wife" Who Worked on WMDs for the CIA. Rove had a conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper on July 11, 2003. Cooper wrote an email about the conversation to his Time bureau chief. In the e-mail, Cooper described how Rove gave him a "big warning" that Wilson's assertions might not be entirely accurate and that it was not the director of the CIA or the vice president who sent Wilson on his trip. Rather, "it was, KR said,Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd who authorized the trip"" Wilson's wife is Valerie Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division. (Washington Post, 7/11/05; Newsweek, 7/18/05)

-- Cooper's E-mail Shows Rove Speaking to Reporters 3 Days Before Plame's Name Became Public. According to Newsweek, although Cooper's e-mail does not prove that Rove knew Plame was a covert operative, "...it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, (three days) before Plame's identity had been published." (WP, 7/11/05; Newsweek, 7/18/05)

-- Rove Also Told A Different Story Than Cooper to Special Prosecutor. There also is a discrepancy between accounts given by Rove and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper. The White House aide mentioned Wilson's wife -- though not by name -- in a July 11, 2003, conversation with Cooper, the reporter said. Rove, 55, says that Cooper called him to talk about welfare reform and the Wilson connection was mentioned later, in passing. Cooper wrote in Time magazine last week that he told the grand jury he never discussed welfare reform with Rove in that call. (Bloomberg, 7/22/05) <snip>

[tanyev]

1. Is it possible that Rove is incapable of telling the truth?

[Demobrat]

2. Is it possible that Rove is completely and totally

busted for lying to the GJ?

[peacebird]

3. can we be so lucky?

please?

[Arkana]

4. Oh, yeah.

I can just see El Roveo Bandito sitting there a la Colonel Jessup and screaming "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"