[Mb-civic] From Mark Felt to Karl Rove - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

 From Mark Felt to Karl Rove

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 18, 2005; 6:21 AM

Thirty-three years after Bob Woodward first met Mark Felt in an 
Arlington parking garage, echoes of the Watergate era seem to be everywhere.

But the comparisons for the press are not all that flattering.

Liberal critics of the media, who believe journalists abysmally failed 
to challenge the president's WMD claims during the Iraq war buildup, 
feel vindicated by news that two reporters were granting Karl Rove 
anonymity as he tried to undermine a prominent debunker of those claims, 
Joe Wilson, by mentioning his wife's CIA role. Some even fault Judith 
Miller for her act of conscience in going to jail, saying the New York 
Times reporter is merely protecting Rove (though no one knows whether 
her source was the White House political adviser or someone else).

<>For those who see the secretive Bush administration as a reincarnation 
of the Nixon regime, the disclosure that Rove served as a source for 
Time's Matt Cooper and columnist Robert Novak looks like the slow 
unraveling of a scandal that has now reached the top level of the White 
House. Scott McClellan is cast in the Ron Ziegler role, refusing to 
answer a barrage of reporters' questions about Rove after his previous 
answers were rendered inoperative.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/18/BL2005071800163.html?nav=hcmodule 

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