[Mb-civic] Reporter: Rove Told Him of Plame's CIA Tie - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Reporter: Rove Told Him of Plame's CIA Tie
Bush Adviser Did Not Say She Was A Covert Operative

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 18, 2005; Page A02

White House senior adviser Karl Rove, after telling Time reporter 
Matthew Cooper in 2003 that the wife of an administration critic worked 
for the CIA, closed the conversation by noting "I've already said too 
much," Cooper said yesterday in recounting his testimony before a 
federal grand jury.

While that comment appeared to indicate the sensitive nature of the 
conversation, which is now under scrutiny by a special prosecutor 
investigating the leak of Valerie Plame's name, Rove said nothing about 
Plame being a covert operative, Cooper said. The conversation took place 
days after Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, 
accused the White House of twisting evidence on whether Iraq had been 
seeking weapons of mass destruction.

<>Cooper's account, in the new issue of Time magazine, came as 
Republicans ratcheted up their defense of Rove and criticism of 
Democrats who have called for his ouster, even as the White House 
remained firmly in no-comment mode.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700755.html 

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