Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Saving the System
It’s like Watergate, isn’t it? The whole effort of finding out who "outed" Valerie Plame is about reenforcing the public’s perception of the ultimate fairness and rightness of American justice. It really doesn’t have anything to do with straigthtening out a corrupt and evil system.
Bush will walk, Cheney will walk, Rumsfeld will walk. Maybe even Rove will walk. You just can’t come out and say, “All these guys who got us into this war are crooks, liars, greedheads, and general incompetents who need to be fired and put on trial.”
Somebody might get the idea there’s something wrong with our country if that happened.
ABC News
Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove
Matthew Cooper Says I. Lewis Libby Confirmed Information
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1265736
Oct. 31 2005 — - One of the reporters at the center of the investigation into the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, says he first learned the agent's name from President Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove.
Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper also said today in an interview with "Good Morning America," that the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, confirmed to him that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
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"There is no question. I first learned about Valerie Plame working at the CIA from Karl Rove," Cooper said.
Libby has since claimed that he heard the Plame rumors from other reporters. Cooper disputed that version of events. "I don't remember it happening that way," he said. "I was taking notes at the time and I feel confident."
If a trial goes ahead, Cooper said he would name Rove as his source of the information.
"Before I spoke to Karl Rove I didn't know Mr. Wilson had a wife and that she had been involved in sending him to Africa."
Copyright © 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures
Bush will walk, Cheney will walk, Rumsfeld will walk. Maybe even Rove will walk. You just can’t come out and say, “All these guys who got us into this war are crooks, liars, greedheads, and general incompetents who need to be fired and put on trial.”
Somebody might get the idea there’s something wrong with our country if that happened.
ABC News
Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove
Matthew Cooper Says I. Lewis Libby Confirmed Information
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1265736
Oct. 31 2005 — - One of the reporters at the center of the investigation into the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, says he first learned the agent's name from President Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove.
Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper also said today in an interview with "Good Morning America," that the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, confirmed to him that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
***
"There is no question. I first learned about Valerie Plame working at the CIA from Karl Rove," Cooper said.
Libby has since claimed that he heard the Plame rumors from other reporters. Cooper disputed that version of events. "I don't remember it happening that way," he said. "I was taking notes at the time and I feel confident."
If a trial goes ahead, Cooper said he would name Rove as his source of the information.
"Before I spoke to Karl Rove I didn't know Mr. Wilson had a wife and that she had been involved in sending him to Africa."
Copyright © 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures
