It was that rat bastard Cooper:“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.”
Oooh. That’s dangerous stuff there. It may not be the smartest thing in the world for Karl Rove’s lawyer to be disparaging Matt Cooper on the day before he testifies, do you think? They only know what one e-mail says and they have no idea what Cooper is going to say. Bizarre.
(Via Hullabaloo.)
Sure, blame the media, it’s always worked before.
A few notes on this particular spin tactic: it doesn’t matter that Cooper burned Rove legally. The CRIME was Rove telling anybody without the required security clearance that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent. Doesn’t matter if Rove told his priest, his Russian mistress, his secretary, or his mommy. If they didn’t have the security clearance, he was guilty. The fact that he told somebody with major media access was just insult to injury.
As for me, I do blame the media. Cooper’s been sitting on this information for two years. He’s let the crime go unreported for two years, and he knew who and what was involved. In the meantime, Rove has had access to even more secure information, and Bush trusted him enough to promote him. Don’t you think it would have been nice for Cooper to use his soapbox and let the American people know before the election? Heck, don’t you think Bush should have known as soon as possible?
Of course, that presupposes the idea that Bush didn’t already know, doesn’t it?
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I’m going to do a “What the meaning of “is” is moment here.
“The CRIME was Rove telling anybody without the required security clearance that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent. Doesn’t matter if Rove told his priest, his Russian mistress, his secretary, or his mommy. If they didn’t have the security clearance, he was guilty. The fact that he told somebody with major media access was just insult to injury.”
Actually the CRIME was Novak’s, who seems to be the only person that’s getting off scot free in this scandal. Rove really DIDN’T commit a crime since it seems his “leaking” was accidental. By all accounts, even Cooper’s, Rove didn’t INTENTIONALLY reveal Plame’s name and THAT’S what the law says would be the crime. Heck, it even makes an acceptance for the goof in the wording of the law itself.
It’s no big mystery why the left wants to crucify Rove for this instead of nailing Novak’s hide to the wall. Novak’s small potatoes and it’s another chance to embarrass Bush.
Frankly, if I were Bush, I’d just tell the left to shut their pie hole. Hell, they’ve called for the resignation of everyone in the adminstration at least once except for the the president’s wife.
Of course, now Rove is claiming that he found out who Plame was from Novak.
Riigghhhhtt.
eclark said:
Rove really DIDN’T commit a crime since it seems his “leaking” was accidental. By all accounts, even Cooper’s, Rove didn’t INTENTIONALLY reveal Plame’s name and THAT’S what the law says would be the crime.
Having once held a clearance myself, i can tell you that merely leaking the info by accident would be enough to get anyone who wasn’t Bush’s political puppeteer and apparatchik in trouble — probably, given the level of the info, getting the clearance suspended or revoked.
Cooper’s e-mail to his editor said, in part:
it was, KR said, wilson’s wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.
Okay; here we have Rove telling a reporter that Wilson’s wife works at the Company. She was a covert analyst — in fact, she appears to have been what’s called a “non-official cover” asset — someone who is not — officially — employed by CIA. In fact, she was officially employed as an energy analyst for the private company Brewster Jennings & Associates, which was subsequently acknowledged by the CIA as a front.
Simply by telling a reporter that Plame was with CIA, Rove blew her cover, which is illegal, and, again, something that should at least get his clearance revoked or suspended.
Frankly, if I were Bush, I’d just tell the left to shut their pie hole. Hell, they’ve called for the resignation of everyone in the adminstration at least once except for the the president’s wife.
In which manner they seem to me to be remarkably restrained; the Right was calling for Bill Clinton’s impeachment before he was even inaugurated.
You know people on the left always tells me to not bring up Clinton because he’s no longer in office and therefore irrelevant but when they have a point to make they bring up Clinton and what the Republicans did to him.
For what it’s worth, I was against Clinton’s impeachment. Not because I didn’t think he wasn’t guilty, but because It was stupid. The man was going to be out of office soon anyway. Hell, he was a lame duck. I’m not going to defend partisans of either stripe. they’re all idiots.
Rove didn’t blow her cover, even Plame’s husband admits that now.
Ed, if Rove actually said what was alleged, then he should be fired. No ifs, ands or buts. He revealed classified information to people who weren’t authorized to have it. That’s, at best, a firing offence, a crime at worst.
And this endangers not just Plame or Wilson; far too many people are forgetting that this endangers EVERYONE she was in contact with while she was undercover. Ya think some unfriendly types are gonna go over her internary over those years and try to figure out who she met or was associated with? Think that some of them might come to an unhappy fate–whether or not they were actually undercover agents?
Roy, my name’s not Ed.
“E” pr “EC” will do just fine.
Rove warned a reporter away from a wrong story. that’s all. He wasn’t thge one who blew Plame’s cover. In fact, it seems it was the CIA and Plame herself that blew her own cover. Her own boss claims that she was “telling everyone she knew that she worked at the CIA”. Plame was no longer an undercover operative. she hadn’t been for as much as five years maybe longer.
Alomost everyone now concedes that Rove did nothing wrong. So those people who are seeking his resignation or firing are just trying to hurt the president. Why don’t you guys just admit that’s what you want?