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White House: Bush Has Confidence in Rove
By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; 2:51 AM
WASHINGTON -- Amid calls for Karl Rove's dismissal, President Bush is standing by his top political adviser, whose role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity has plunged the White House into controversy.
The defense follows the disclosure that Rove talked about the officer in a July 11, 2003, conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.
The president ignored a question Tuesday about whether he would fire Rove, and White House spokesman Scott McClellan said later that "any individual who works here at the White House has the confidence of the president." McClellan said that includes Rove.
Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, said Rove did not disclose Valerie Plame's name, a point that Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., called a distinction without a difference.
"The fact that he didn't give her name, but identified the ambassador's wife ... doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who that is," Biden said on CNN's "Inside Politics." "If that occurred, at a minimum, that was incredibly bad judgment, warranting him being asked to leave."
In September and October 2003, McClellan said he had spoken to Rove about the Plame matter and that Rove wasn't involved in the leak. McClellan refused for a second day to discuss the White House denials of two years ago, saying that to do so would impinge on the ongoing criminal investigation of the leak.
Bush said last year he would fire anyone found to have leaked Plame's name. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said it's time for Rove to leave.
White House allies weighed in, with expressions of support for Rove from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman said Rove was the victim of partisan political attacks by Democrats.
An e-mail by Cooper that surfaced over the weekend in Newsweek magazine said Rove spoke of the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson as being someone who apparently works at the CIA and who arranged a trip for her husband to Africa.
Cooper's e-mail said Rove warned him away from the idea that Wilson's trip had been authorized by CIA Director George Tenet or Vice President Dick Cheney.
The RNC chairman said Rove "was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story based on a false premise."
Rove's conversation with Cooper took place five days after Plame's husband suggested in a New York Times op-ed piece that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
Eight days after the op-ed piece, Plame's name and her connection to the CIA first appeared in a newspaper column by Robert Novak.
The column said two administration officials told Novak that Wilson's wife had suggested sending him to investigate whether Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Niger. Cooper's byline appeared on an article a few days later naming Plame.
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if the leak turned out to be any non-republican, they would have been served a subpoena to appear before a Senate Committee immediately and indicted under some sort of Patriot Act provision.
if the leak was a black democrat, he'd be on death row already.
but its Karl Rove. The man behind the man behind the man. Karl Rove is one of the biggest pieces of shit in D.C., and is Bush's right hand man after Real President Cheney.
Theres a reporter in jail who refused to name her source (even though she didnt write the article in question) because of the "danger" she put the CIA operative in.
Then the source is traced by to the White House and mastermind Rove. The leak is revealed! Time to lash out and show this populus what's up. Jail the leak! Break his legs! He'll never make love in this town again!
So what happens?
Bush, DeLay and Spector rally behind Rove. Why? Cause he's part of the reason all those people are where they are to begin with. I wouldnt be surprised if this cocksucker doesn't even resign. What an afront to our intelligence. I hope this lil scandal brings down the White House. It seems theres always a second term faux pas that'll screw up a presidency.
Reagan had Iran-Contra.
Clinton had Monica.
Now Bush has Rove and his big, fat fucking mouth.
Dear god, if you really exist, you'd punish these scurvy bastards for doing so much evil in your name. Judge them, oh lord, and judge them harshly. Cause thats what they deserve.
Gods mercy on you Swine!
By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; 2:51 AM
WASHINGTON -- Amid calls for Karl Rove's dismissal, President Bush is standing by his top political adviser, whose role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity has plunged the White House into controversy.
The defense follows the disclosure that Rove talked about the officer in a July 11, 2003, conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.
The president ignored a question Tuesday about whether he would fire Rove, and White House spokesman Scott McClellan said later that "any individual who works here at the White House has the confidence of the president." McClellan said that includes Rove.
Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, said Rove did not disclose Valerie Plame's name, a point that Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., called a distinction without a difference.
"The fact that he didn't give her name, but identified the ambassador's wife ... doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who that is," Biden said on CNN's "Inside Politics." "If that occurred, at a minimum, that was incredibly bad judgment, warranting him being asked to leave."
In September and October 2003, McClellan said he had spoken to Rove about the Plame matter and that Rove wasn't involved in the leak. McClellan refused for a second day to discuss the White House denials of two years ago, saying that to do so would impinge on the ongoing criminal investigation of the leak.
Bush said last year he would fire anyone found to have leaked Plame's name. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said it's time for Rove to leave.
White House allies weighed in, with expressions of support for Rove from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman said Rove was the victim of partisan political attacks by Democrats.
An e-mail by Cooper that surfaced over the weekend in Newsweek magazine said Rove spoke of the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson as being someone who apparently works at the CIA and who arranged a trip for her husband to Africa.
Cooper's e-mail said Rove warned him away from the idea that Wilson's trip had been authorized by CIA Director George Tenet or Vice President Dick Cheney.
The RNC chairman said Rove "was discouraging a reporter from writing a false story based on a false premise."
Rove's conversation with Cooper took place five days after Plame's husband suggested in a New York Times op-ed piece that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
Eight days after the op-ed piece, Plame's name and her connection to the CIA first appeared in a newspaper column by Robert Novak.
The column said two administration officials told Novak that Wilson's wife had suggested sending him to investigate whether Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Niger. Cooper's byline appeared on an article a few days later naming Plame.
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if the leak turned out to be any non-republican, they would have been served a subpoena to appear before a Senate Committee immediately and indicted under some sort of Patriot Act provision.
if the leak was a black democrat, he'd be on death row already.
but its Karl Rove. The man behind the man behind the man. Karl Rove is one of the biggest pieces of shit in D.C., and is Bush's right hand man after Real President Cheney.
Theres a reporter in jail who refused to name her source (even though she didnt write the article in question) because of the "danger" she put the CIA operative in.
Then the source is traced by to the White House and mastermind Rove. The leak is revealed! Time to lash out and show this populus what's up. Jail the leak! Break his legs! He'll never make love in this town again!
So what happens?
Bush, DeLay and Spector rally behind Rove. Why? Cause he's part of the reason all those people are where they are to begin with. I wouldnt be surprised if this cocksucker doesn't even resign. What an afront to our intelligence. I hope this lil scandal brings down the White House. It seems theres always a second term faux pas that'll screw up a presidency.
Reagan had Iran-Contra.
Clinton had Monica.
Now Bush has Rove and his big, fat fucking mouth.
Dear god, if you really exist, you'd punish these scurvy bastards for doing so much evil in your name. Judge them, oh lord, and judge them harshly. Cause thats what they deserve.
Gods mercy on you Swine!