[Mb-civic] Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 11, 2005; Page A01

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one 
reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified 
as a covert agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer 
said yesterday that his client did not identify her by name.

<>Rove had a short conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew 
Cooper on July 11, 2003, three days before Robert D. Novak publicly 
exposed Plame in a column about her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV. Wilson 
had come under attack from the White House for his assertions that he 
found no evidence Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger and that he 
reported those findings to top administration officials. Wilson publicly 
accused the administration of leaking his wife's identity as a means of 
retaliation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071001000.html?nav=hcmodule 

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