Rove was the source of the Plame leak... so it appears

DC TURNS 'ANIMAL HOUSE': TIME REPORTER USED MOVIE JOKE IN ROVE EMAIL
Sun Jul 17 2005 18:48:33 ET

CNNWASHPOST HOWARD KURTZ: A lot of people have picked up on your description in the memos to your bureau chief of that conversation -- "It was on double super secret background." What did that mean?

TIME MATT COOPER: Well, Howie, I can now reveal that it was a joke. Karl Rove, when we had the conversation, wanted it to be on deep background, which I took to mean I could use the material but not quote it directly, and certainly not attribute it, that I had to protect the identity of my source. When I wrote the note to my bureau chief, just moments after the conversation with Rove, in a slightly playful way, I echoed the line in the movie "Animal House," where John Belushi's wild fraternity is put on double secret probation. So it was a little bit of humor.



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Tico makes a good point. Palme has not been a covert agent for several years. The issue is fabricated nonsense.

Odd isn't it that those who most assiduously aplaud MarK Felt's continued covert leaks to the press over Watergate - and other matters - are so prominent in demanding Rove's scalp. What was the difference between their behaviors here?

Of course it will be asserted that Nixon was the apotheosis of all that is evil and any action taken against him, no matter what the motivation or legal status of the action itself - was certainly justified.

Palme invited counterattack when she proposed her husband for the investigation of the Niger matter - an evident conflict of interest, and an action quite obviously taken with a political agenda in mind - as Wilson's analysis of the Niger matter so clearly demonstrated.

Felt was obviously motivated by resentment at the restoration of normal executuve department control of the FBI after Herbert Hoover's death and the quite understandable appointment of a "controllable" outsider (L. Patrick Grey) as the new Director, instead of one of Hoover's former deputies (Felt prominently among them). Woodward and Bernstein made their careers on this matter and it is no surprise to see their enthusiastic - if a bit tortured - defense of their vindictive snitch in this matter.

Bush has no integrity because he won't fire a staffer who has not been convircted, charged, or even accused of any crime or wrongdoing?

If this former federal prosecutor did his homework, Valerie Plame was outed a long time ago....and not by anybody in the Bush administration:

Did the CIA "Out" Valerie Plame?SPUN FROM THE STARTTHE MEDIA TELLS THE COURT: PLAME'S COVER WAS BLOWN IN THE MID-1990sLINK

officials said the disclosure that Mrs. Plame's cover was blown before the news column undermines the prosecution of the government official who might have revealed the name, officials said.

"The law says that to be covered by the act the intelligence community has to take steps to affirmatively protect someone's cover," one official said. "In this case, the CIA failed to do that."

A second official, however, said the compromises before the news column were not publicized and thus should not affect the investigation of the Plame matter.

Kuvasz posted without calling anyone stupid or retarded.

We're making progress

JustWonders wrote:

Kuvasz posted without calling anyone stupid or retarded.

We're making progress

well, you and lash haven't posted much lately now, have you?

jesus, george. Is it at all possible that you might cast your eyes above the partisan wall you have nailed up around you? What is it with you guys and party loyalty? It would be difficult to come up with a better means of compromising your own intellect than this 'truth established by membership' thing you have going on here.

Ya rotten bastards....

blatham wrote:

jesus, george. Is it at all possible that you might cast your eyes above the partisan wall you have nailed up around you? What is it with you guys and party loyalty? It would be difficult to come up with a better means of compromising your own intellect than this 'truth established by membership' thing you have going on here.

Odd that I see precisely the same selective blindness that you wrongfully attribute to me in your position and that of the 'progressive' claques here. My intellect is unsullied.

That Felt's behavior was leagally equivalent (though on a much larger scale and involving a clear conspiracy) to that attributed to Rove is quite obvious, as is the hypocrisy of the rather predictable chorus of the loonie left here.

Given their unwavering conviction that Nixon was the personification of all that is evil and that any action taken to bring him down was somehow justified, one can imagine the source of their blindness - however it is blindness nonetheless.

I do hope you are well and content. The Bay Area is cool and refreshing. Getting familiar again with old haunts and delights. Spent a delightful weekend by the Russian River under the redwoods - also a good way to avoid chores during the final stages of move-in.

Tico,I could spend 8 hours checking the your "facts" and no matter what I came up with you would come back a whole knew pile of disinformation for me to sift through, nothanks.But I do agree the democrats are calling for Rove to be fired to soon but it's hard to play fair someone when their always cheating

That Felt's behavior was leagally equivalent (though on a much larger scale and involving a clear conspiracy) to that attributed to Rove is quite obvious,