Newsweek: Rove was the leaker
 

Article here.

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Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." Wilson's wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division. (Cooper later included the essence of what Rove told him in an online story.)

This email was sent two days before Robert Novak broke the story.

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Article here.

From the article:

Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." Wilson's wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division. (Cooper later included the essence of what Rove told him in an online story.)

This email was sent two days before Robert Novak broke the story.

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If true, Rove has to go. He most likely has a pretty good legal defense here but the white house already made this a big deal (by agreeing to a special prosecuter and through the president's statements) so they should follow through.

Rove already served his purpose, this is just a bump in the road.

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Rove already served his purpose, this is just a bump in the road.


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You greatly underestimate Rove's role in the current administration.

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If they ever find out who leaked the story, will that individual(s) face criminal charges?

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If they ever find out who leaked the story, will that individual(s) face criminal charges?

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Unless Rove leaked it to Novak, there is no problem, since it was Novak that informed the world. Rove had no reason to warn Novak off boostering Wilson (the husband) because Novak isn't a liberal dedicated to boostering administration opponents (unlike the TIME and NYT reporters).

Rove has said he never mentioned her name to the TIME reporter, so this is a tenuous link at most.

The Story in summary

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Unless Rove leaked it to Novak, there is no problem, since it was Novak that informed the world.

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So basically what your saying is that as long as Rove says "promise not to tell anyone" he can tell classified information to anyone he wants.


Please, tell me that the names of our covert operatives aren't protected with the same method of security that a 12 year old girl keeps on the name of the boy she has a crush on.

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Unless Rove leaked it to Novak, there is no problem, since it was Novak that informed the world.

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No problem for who? I think this is a big problem for Rove, and no problem for Novak.

-ptmusic

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Unless Rove leaked it to Novak, there is no problem, since it was Novak that informed the world.

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No problem for who? I think this is a big problem for Rove, and no problem for Novak.

-ptmusic

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Ya I think ptmusic has this right.

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If true, Rove has to go to prison.

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FYP.

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If true, Rove has to go to prison.

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FYP.

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If you look at the standard for a criminal conviction it it very high and I doubt this will happen.

But really I don't care, I care about The President and The Party. They must be protected and to that Rove would have to go.