[Mb-civic] The Rove Factor? By Michael Isikoff Newsweek

[Lyle K'ang]

As stated previously in other posts....this act by Mr. Karl Rove is by U.S. and U.S.M.J. standards & Laws treasonist and in some cases to be punished by death...whether he comes to trial, or even considered for the ultimate sentence shows us, how bad our 'court' systems are-They need an overall.

One issue at a time-this and the UK documents, Downing Street Memos about Iraq, are the two highly credible evidence that we need to go after, like a dog with a bone.


Lyle Kekahi K'ang, MBA/IM 
http://silomanagement.blogspot.com/
http://lyve-oasis.com

-- Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:
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    The Rove Factor?
    By Michael Isikoff
    Newsweek

    11 July issue

    July 11 issue - Its legal appeals exhausted, Time magazine agreed last
week to turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's e-mails and computer notes to a
special prosecutor investigating the leak of an undercover CIA agent's
identity. The case has been the subject of press controversy for two years.
Saying "we are not above the law," Time Inc. Editor in Chief Norman
Pearlstine decided to comply with a grand-jury subpoena to turn over
documents related to the leak. But Cooper (and a New York Times reporter,
Judith Miller) is still refusing to testify and faces jail this week.

    At issue is the story of a CIA-sponsored trip taken by former ambassador
(and White House critic) Joseph Wilson to investigate reports that Iraq was
seeking to buy uranium from the African country of Niger. "Some government
officials have noted to Time in interviews... that Wilson's wife, Valerie
Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction," said Cooper's July 2003 Time online article.

    Now the story may be about to take another turn. The e-mails surrendered
by Time Inc., which are largely between Cooper and his editors, show that
one of Cooper's sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove,
according to two lawyers who asked not to be identified because they are
representing witnesses sympathetic to the White House. Cooper and a Time
spokeswoman declined to comment. But in an interview with NEWSWEEK, Rove's
lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove had been interviewed by Cooper
for the article. It is unclear, however, what passed between Cooper and
Rove.

    The controversy began three days before the Time piece appeared, when
columnist Robert Novak, writing about Wilson's trip, reported that Wilson
had been sent at the suggestion of his wife, who was identified by name as a
CIA operative. The leak to Novak, apparently intended to discredit Wilson's
mission, caused a furor when it turned out that Plame was an undercover
agent. It is a crime to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover CIA
official. A special prosecutor was appointed and began subpoenaing reporters
to find the source of the leak.

    Novak appears to have made some kind of arrangement with the special
prosecutor, and other journalists who reported on the Plame story have
talked to prosecutors with the permission of their sources. Cooper agreed to
discuss his contact with Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's
top aide, after Libby gave him permission to do so. But Cooper drew the line
when special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asked about other sources.

    Initially, Fitzgerald's focus was on Novak's sourcing, since Novak was
the first to out Plame. But according to Luskin, Rove's lawyer, Rove spoke
to Cooper three or four days before Novak's column appeared. Luskin told
NEWSWEEK that Rove "never knowingly disclosed classified information" and
that "he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA."
Luskin declined, however, to discuss any other details. He did say that Rove
himself had testified before the grand jury "two or three times" and signed
a waiver authorizing reporters to testify about their conversations with
him. "He has answered every question that has been put to him about his
conversations with Cooper and anybody else," Luskin said. But one of the two
lawyers representing a witness sympathetic to the White House told NEWSWEEK
that there was growing "concern" in the White House that the prosecutor is
interested in Rove. Fitzgerald declined to comment.

    In early October 2003, NEWSWEEK reported that immediately after Novak's
column appeared in July, Rove called MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews
and told him that Wilson's wife was "fair game." But White House spokesman
Scott McClellan told reporters at the time that any suggestion that Rove had
played a role in outing Plame was "totally ridiculous." On Oct. 10,
McClellan was asked directly if Rove and two other White House aides had
ever discussed Valerie Plame with any reporters. McClellan said he had
spoken with all three, and "those individuals assured me they were not
involved in this."

 

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