New York Daily News: Prez ex-flack lumped with Rove ?

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/328100p-280454c.html


By THOMAS M. DeFRANK
and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - The special prosecutor probing the outing of a CIA spy is looking beyond who leaked Valerie Plame's identity, seeking whether White House aides tried to cover their tracks after her name went public, sources told the Daily News.

Along with Bush political guru Karl Rove, the grand jury is investigating what role, if any, ex-White House mouthpiece Ari Fleischer may have played in the revelation that the former covert operative Plame was married to former Ambassador Joe Wilson.

"Ari's name keeps popping up," said one source familiar with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's probe.

Another source close to the probe added there is renewed interest in Fleischer, "based on Fitzgerald's questions."

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1. New York Newsday: Search for sources goes beyond Rove

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usrove0716,0,95760.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Focus in disclosure of CIA agent’s identity widens after disclosure Bush aide was involved in blowing her cover

BY TOM BRUNE
WASHINGTON BUREAU

July 16, 2005

WASHINGTON -- New disclosures this week that Bush aide Karl Rove was a source for two journalists who wrote about covert CIA agent Valerie Plame two years ago raise questions about the identities of additional sources each of them cited.

Rove remains on the political hot seat, but the search for other sources used by columnist Robert Novak and Time reporter Matt Cooper in July 2003 could shift the focus again to officials such as Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff.


The disclosures also highlight the special prosecutor's interest in jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her meeting in Washington with an unnamed government official on July 8, 2003, the same day, according to the disclosures, that Rove spoke with Novak.

Rove's role has emerged since Miller was jailed 10 days ago by a federal judge for refusing to reveal her sources and Cooper testified Wednesday before a grand jury and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.


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2. Ari Fleischer is involved boy the White House always thought

he was disposable!!! And lets not forget Scottie who talked to Scooter and Rove and swore they had nothing to do with it!!!


Now how would Ari find out she was a CIA operative???