Plame Leak(s) - By Jason (Don't Read If You Don't Want To) Leopold

[kpete]

Plame Leak(s)
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

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Fitzgerald's suspicions about Rove's story turned out to be prescient. Rove failed to tell the grand jury that he had been a source for Cooper. Instead, Rove said he found out about Plame and then subsequently shared information about her with other journalists - including Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball" - only after Novak published his column.

Explaining the discrepancy to the Special Prosecutor in October 2005, Luskin, Rove's attorney, told Fitzgerald that Rove had truly forgotten about his conversation with Cooper, but Luskin jogged his memory thanks to a tip he says he received from Cooper's Time colleague, Viveca Novak (no relation to the conservative columnist Robert Novak).

Hours before Libby's indictment in October, Luskin told Fitzgerald that he had gone for drinks with Novak in late January or early February 2004 and she had inadvertently revealed that the buzz inside Time magazine was that Rove had been a source for Matt Cooper's story on Plame Wilson.

Luskin told Fitzgerald that Novak's tip prompted him and Rove to conduct an exhaustive search for documentary evidence to determine if Rove had spoken with Cooper. That's when an email Rove sent to the then-deputy national security adviser immediately following Rove's conversation with Cooper turned up, which Luskin said he promptly turned over to Fitzgerald, and which led Rove to change his testimony and disclose that he did speak with Cooper.

more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106Z.shtml

Two other interesting Plame articles Wapo smears Joe Wilson and Parry defends him
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090106.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

[bryant69]

1. I don't know - just reading the name Leopold is enough to

make me furious. As a matter of fact even contemplating the existance of Jason Leopold fills me with rage. It's a good thing I haven't been exposed to any gamma radiation or there'd be lots of trouble.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Sperk]

4. I know, cause we all know that it is totally IMPOSSIBLE that

Rove could have been indicted and then cut a deal or Fitz was gotten to. Cause everyone knows that the Bush, Cheney, Rummy cabal could never squirm out of any accountability for any wrong doing.
:sarcasm:

[bryant69]

7. and it never happens that reporters ever get anything wrong

and then refuse to accept that they have made a mistake, but arrogantly attack anybody who questions them.

[Coexist]

2. *snort* - Love the headline, kpete!

You kill me!

[cal04]

3. Just posted this to another thread from Media Matters

Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage role in Plame leak exonerates Libby and Rove

Summary: Numerous media figures have asserted that a recent report purportedly identifying former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as Robert Novak's original source for Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative prove that Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were not involved in the leak of her identity. However, Armitage's role as Novak's first source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvements in the leak -- both were original sources of the information for two other reporters.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609010001

[chat_noir]

5. Rove

However, as Media Matters noted, then-Time magazine White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, in his first-person account (subscription required) of his testimony before the grand jury in the CIA leak investigation, identified Rove as his original source for Plame's identity


As Corn wrote in the August 27 entry of his Capital Games weblog:

Armitage's role aside, the public record is without question: senior White House aides wanted to use Valerie Wilson's CIA employment against her husband. Rove leaked the information to Cooper, and Libby confirmed Rove's leak to Cooper.


http://mediamatters.org/items/200609010001

[deaniac21]

6. Nothing like a little comedy on a Friday!

:popcorn:

[LordLovesAWorkingMan]

8. It seems to me that

Leopold can make up any story he wants to, so long as it ends with something like, "...but the indictment remains sealed," or, "...but it appears that Rove has wriggled free for now."

The facts, which are determined by things that have actually happened, are diametrically opposed to the horseshit that truthout continues to heap on this nonstory. If Fox News did the same thing, we would have a drinking game about it by now.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Thanks for posting, Kpete.

This Plame matter is heating up again.