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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:28 AM
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But Bushie is still backing up his puppeteer:


White House: Bush Has Confidence in Rove

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
(07-12) 11:04 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

After two days of questions, the White House said Tuesday that President Bush continues to have confidence in Karl Rove, the presidential adviser at the center of the investigation into the leak identifying a female CIA officer. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats are calling for Rove to be fired.

Bush did not respond to a reporter's question Tuesday about whether he would fire Rove, in keeping with a June 2004 pledge to dismiss any leakers of Valerie Plame's identity.

At a White House briefing afterward, spokesman Scott McClellan was pressed about Rove's future.

"Any individual who works here at the White House has the confidence of the president. They wouldn't be working here at the White House if they didn't have the president's confidence," McClellan said.

The White House said two years ago that Rove wasn't involved in the leak. According to a July 2003 e-mail that surfaced over the weekend, Rove told Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper that the woman "apparently works" for the CIA. It added that the woman had authorized a trip to Africa by her husband, U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, to check out allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger for nuclear weapons.
See post 12.....

He won't get fired.....The republicans love this guy. Every string will be pulled to save his ***.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:39 AM
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I don't know about that. I think it's being kept under the table in order to make an already embarrassing incident seem insignificant. This is not a partisan issue. It's gotten to the point where the executive branch is trying to save face. I'm sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes with Rove and Bush. I'm sure he's being told to resign.

If nothing happens then it's complete BS.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:45 AM
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Not a partisan issue? Thats kinda funny....

The guy ruined the career of one of the country’s spies working against terrorists that were trying to gain weapons of mass destruction all for the sake of revenge and political gain.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:46 AM
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Maybe I'm just a pessimist.....If it were you or I that were the leak we would be looking at felony time but this guy may just lose his job.

It's a joke.....
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:51 AM
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What's happening now is NOT a partisan issue whatsoever. By that I mean if this happened in any other cabinet it would not be public. Again, I believe they are trying to save face with this incident for the sake of the executive branch. What are you expecting? Bush to fire Rove like Donald Trump on the apprentice? Maybe the dems can make millions if they air it on pay-per-view. If anything, it will be a discrete resignation on Roves part. If nothing happens then it's horsecrap.
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Originally Posted by SilverScoober02
Maybe I'm just a pessimist.....If it were you or I that were the leak we would be looking at felony time but this guy may just lose his job.

It's a joke.....

I agree. Far worse. Same thing would have happened if you replaced an average citizen with Berger. They would have disappeared.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 12:12 PM
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White House: Bush Has Confidence in Rove

WASHINGTON - After two days of questions, the White House said Tuesday that President Bush continues to have confidence in Karl Rove, the presidential adviser at the center of the investigation into the leak identifying a female CIA officer. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats are calling for Rove to be fired.

Bush did not respond to a reporter's question Tuesday about whether he would fire Rove, in keeping with a June 2004 pledge to dismiss any leakers of Valerie Plame's identity.

At a White House briefing afterward, spokesman Scott McClellan was pressed about Rove's future.

"Any individual who works here at the White House has the confidence of the president. They wouldn't be working here at the White House if they didn't have the president's confidence," McClellan said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._investigation


This reminds of the scene in Erik The Viking where that island is sinking into the sea, and even as the water is up to their necks the inhabitants are insistent that everything is peachy and burst into song about how wonderful things are.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 12:26 PM
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I agree. Far worse. Same thing would have happened if you replaced an average citizen with Berger. They would have disappeared.
Exactly.....It just pisses me off.....
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 12:54 PM
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What makes this a partisan issue:
-Rove got Bush elected in Texas and twice for President (most conservatives agree that he was the reason behind all the campaings)
-during the same time, Rove used his political clout to get personal and political revenge on someone by doing something very illegal (so clearly he's not moraly opposed to cheating to win)
-when you add those two things together you realize that Rove's motivation, and therefore the reason Bush got the presidency (or the reason he was convinced to run in the first place; either way), is personal monitary and personal political gain for Karl Rove, not the best interests of the country.



If Bush loves Rove so much and 'has confidence' in him even after this all goes down, then Bush is responsible for Rove and should go down with him.

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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 04:17 PM
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Lawyer: Cooper “Burned” Karl Rove
Rove’s attorney talks to NRO.



The lawyer for top White House adviser Karl Rove says that Time reporter Matthew Cooper "burned" Rove after a conversation between the two men concerning former ambassador Joseph Wilson's fact-finding mission to Niger and the role Wilson's wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, played in arranging that trip. Nevertheless, attorney Robert Luskin says Rove long ago gave his permission for all reporters, including Cooper, to tell prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about their conversations with Rove.

In an interview with National Review Online, Luskin compared the contents of a July 11, 2003, internal Time e-mail written by Cooper with the wording of a story Cooper co-wrote a few days later. "By any definition, he burned Karl Rove," Luskin said of Cooper. "If you read what Karl said to him and read how Cooper characterizes it in the article, he really spins it in a pretty ugly fashion to make it seem like people in the White House were affirmatively reaching out to reporters to try to get them to them to report negative information about Plame."

First the e-mail. According to a report in Newsweek, Cooper's e-mail to Time Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy said, "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper said that Rove had warned him away from getting "too far out on Wilson," and then passed on Rove's statement that neither Vice President Dick Cheney nor CIA Director George Tenet had picked Wilson for the trip; "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd issues who authorized the trip." Finally — all of this is according to the Newsweek report — Cooper's e-mail said that "not only the genesis of the trip is flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied strongly that there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger..."

A few days after sending the e-mail, Cooper co-wrote an article headlined "A War on Wilson?" that appeared on Time's website. The story began, "Has the Bush administration declared war on a former ambassador who conducted a fact-finding mission to probe possible Iraqi interest in African uranium? Perhaps."

The story continued:

Some government officials have noted to Time in interviews (as well as to syndicated columnist Robert Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched to Niger to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein's government had sought to purchase large quantities of uranium ore, sometimes referred to as yellow cake, which is used to build nuclear devices.

Plame's role in Wilson's assignment was later confirmed by a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation.

Luskin told NRO that the circumstances of Rove's conversation with Cooper undercut Time's suggestion of a White House "war on Wilson." According to Luskin, Cooper originally called Rove — not the other way around — and said he was working on a story on welfare reform. After some conversation about that issue, Luskin said, Cooper changed the subject to the weapons of mass destruction issue, and that was when the two had the brief talk that became the subject of so much legal wrangling. According to Luskin, the fact that Rove did not call Cooper; that the original purpose of the call, as Cooper told Rove, was welfare reform; that only after Cooper brought the WMD issue up did Rove discuss Wilson — all are "indications that this was not a calculated effort by the White House to get this story out."

"Look at the Cooper e-mail," Luskin continues. "Karl speaks to him on double super secret background...I don't think that you can read that e-mail and conclude that what Karl was trying to do was to get Cooper to publish the name of Wilson's wife."

Nor, says Luskin, was Rove trying to "out" a covert CIA agent or "smear" her husband. "What Karl was trying to do, in a very short conversation initiated by Cooper on another subject, was to warn Time away from publishing things that were going to be established as false." Luskin points out that on the evening of July 11, 2003, just hours after the Rove-Cooper conversation, then-CIA Director George Tenet released a statement that undermined some of Wilson's public assertions about his report. "Karl knew that that [Tenet] statement was in gestation," says Luskin. "I think a fair reading of the e-mail was that he was trying to warn Cooper off from going out on a limb on [Wilson's] allegations."

Luskin also shed light on the waiver that Rove signed releasing Cooper from any confidentiality agreement about the conversation. Luskin says Rove originally signed a waiver in December 2003 or in January 2004 (Luskin did not remember the exact date). The waiver, Luskin continues, was written by the office of special prosecutor Fitzgerald, and Rove signed it without making any changes — with the understanding that it applied to anyone with whom he had discussed the Wilson/Plame matter. "It was everyone's expectation that the waiver would be as broad as it could be," Luskin says.

Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller have expressed concerns that such waivers (top Cheney aide Lewis Libby also signed one) might have been coerced and thus might not have represented Rove's true feelings. Yet from the end of 2003 or beginning of 2004, until last Wednesday, Luskin says, Rove had no idea that there might be any problem with the waiver.

It was not until that Wednesday, the day Cooper was to appear in court, that that changed. "Cooper's lawyer called us and said, "Can you confirm that the waiver encompasses Cooper?" Luskin recalls. "I was amazed. He's a lawyer. It's not rocket science. [The waiver] says 'any person.' It's that broad. So I said, 'Look, I understand that you want reassurances. If Fitzgerald would like Karl to provide you with some other assurances, we will.'" Luskin says he got in touch with the prosecutor — "Rule number one is cooperate with Fitzgerald, and there is no rule number two," Luskin says — and asked what to do. According to Luskin, Fitzgerald said to go ahead, and Luskin called Cooper's lawyer back. "I said that I can reaffirm that the waiver that Karl signed applied to any conversations that Karl and Cooper had," Luskin says. After that — which represented no change from the situation that had existed for 18 months — Cooper made a dramatic public announcement and agreed to testify.

A few other notes: Luskin declined to say how Rove knew that Plame "apparently" (to use Cooper's word) worked at the CIA. But Luskin told NRO that Rove is not hiding behind the defense that he did not identify Wilson's wife because he did not specifically use her name. Asked if that argument was too legalistic, Luskin said, "I agree with you. I think it's a detail."

Luskin also addressed the question of whether Rove is a "subject" of the investigation. Luskin says Fitzgerald has told Rove he is not a "target" of the investigation, but, according to Luskin, Fitzgerald has also made it clear that virtually anyone whose conduct falls within the scope of the investigation, including Rove, is considered a "subject" of the probe. "'Target' is something we all understand, a very alarming term," Luskin says. On the other hand, Fitzgerald "has indicated to us that he takes a very broad view of what a subject is."

Finally, Luskin conceded that Rove is legally free to publicly discuss his actions, including his grand-jury testimony. Rove has not spoken publicly, Luskin says, because Fitzgerald specifically asked him not to.

— Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time.
Old Jul 12, 2005 | 04:32 PM
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Even if Rove was 'baited' into giving secret info, and even if that info was implied and not explicitly said, he outed a CIA spy. So he should have known better, and it is his fault (in other words, he was burned by himself not some reporter).
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I just re-read the article several times. I still say that Rove messed up big time and is now trying to get out of it by using a bunch of misleading, irrelevant legal crap to weaken the case against him to the point that he will be found not-guilty (even though everyone involved, by the end of the trial, will see that he is guilty but they will have no way to convict him...like when the DNA against OJ was thrown out because of a police f***up). Furthermore, I don't give a damn about what the CIA person's role in the CIA was, because regardless of what role it was noone was supposed to know that she performed that role.

Rove is a coniver. He went to 6 colleges and never got a degree, but somehow he still 'guest lectures' on politics. He gets republicans into office because he knows he can't get himself into office because he's badly underqualified. He became a republican because when he was 6 or so, a 14 year old girl who said she was a democrat knocked his a$$ out. Anyone who likes the republican party and what it stands for should disown Karl Rove (and by association, GWBush).
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I should have realized that you defending Rove is not worth addressing. Because you're the only one on the board (regardless of political leaning) that doesn't think he deserves to take a fall for this. He's a first class loser that uses people and our political system for his own personal gains.





Besides, the story about the girl kicking his *** has some truth to it. He liked Nixon, an older girl liked Kenedy, and she kicked his a$$. Since then he's hated democrats. Talk about petty childish behavior.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...rove/cron.html
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Was this the girl who kicked his ***? :rotfl:

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Old Jul 13, 2005 | 05:02 AM
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Originally Posted by svxr8dr
The drivel in your post is not even worth addressing.....like any democrat could knock someone out...HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Not only was it a democrat, but a girl democrat. That must really sting....

The guy deserves to be fired and tried just like any other citizen in the same situation would be. I find it funny that you would try so hard to defend this clown. Even HellaDumb hasn't touched this one with a ten foot pole....

Typical...

Nice article too. I really like the other works the NRQ guy has done such as:

— Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time.

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