July 11, 2005

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  Rove’s Broken No Laws

  
  

  “In a brief conversation with Rove, [TIme reporer Matthew] Cooper asked what to make of the flap over Wilson’s criticisms. NEWSWEEK obtained a copy of the e-mail that Cooper sent his bureau chief after speaking to Rove. (The e-mail was authenticated by a source intimately familiar with Time’s editorial handling of the Wilson story, but who has asked not to be identified because of the magazine’s corporate decision not to disclose its contents.) 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.”

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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           This story has sprung completely out of control. The fact of the matter is that Karl Rove has not broken any laws. We’re not even sure this chic was a covert agent. Bob Novak is the guy the media wanted, instead they got poor old Judith Miller. When we say the media we mean democrats, liberals, etc. Bob Novak is a conservative, so the media demanded his source behind the story. Of course, Novak didn’t comply…no good journalists does. Miller is going to jail because she refused to testify in the grand jury investigation, not because she committed a crime. These investigations are secret. We don’t know what the other journalists have said, and we don’t know what Novak has said. We don’t know anything, and it amuses me when people make premature accusations.

  
  

  Morrison

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