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Karl Rove: countdown...[leak list]

Submitted by Veritas2020 on October 8, 2005 - 11:24am.

October 11, 2005

21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:

Karl Rove
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Condoleezza Rice
Stephen Hadley
Andrew Card
Alberto Gonzales
Mary Matalin
Ari Fleischer
Susan Ralston
Israel Hernandez John Hannah
Scott McClellan
Dan Bartlett
Claire Buchan
Catherine Martin
Colin Powell
Karen Hughes
Adam Levine
Bob Joseph
Vice President Dick Cheney
President George W. Bush

http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal

//archive//10.8.05
WASHINGTON - Senior aide Karl Rove denied to President Bush that he engaged in an effort to disclose the identity of a covert CIA operative to discredit her husband's criticism of Iraq policy, say people familiar with Rove's statements in a criminal investigation.

Rove's brief discussion with Bush has been a mystery for two years because the White House publicly referred to it but refuses to say anything about it.

Beginning two years ago, the White House flatly denied that Rove had been involved in unlawfully leaking the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, the wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

The White House denials collapsed in July amid the disclosure of Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper's conversations in July 2003 about Wilson's wife with Rove and I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

Bush asked Rove in the fall of 2003 to assure him he was not involved in an effort to divulge Plame's identity and punish Wilson, and the longtime confidant assured the president so, people familiar with Rove's account say.

Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff, answered similarly when press secretary Scott McClellan asked him a similar question.

Those with direct knowledge of evidence gathered in the criminal investigation spoke to The Associated Press only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy.

Bush's discussion with Rove did not get into specifics concerning Rove's conversations in July 2003 with syndicated columnist Robert Novak and Cooper, who wrote stories identifying Plame, the people familiar with Rove's account said.

Rove's meeting with Bush occurred amid a public uproar over the Justice Department launching a criminal investigation of who in the administration leaked Plame's identity.

At the time, spokesman McClellan was so adamant in his denials that he told reporters the president himself knew that Rove wasn't involved in the leak.

"How does (Bush) know that?" a reporter asked.

"I'm not going to get into conversations that the president has with advisers or staff," McClellan replied.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up an investigation into whether Rove, Libby or other White House aides divulged Plame's identity in violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

The probe also is examining whether aides mishandled classified information, made false statements or obstructed justice.

Rove is slated to testify soon to the grand jury for the fourth time. Prosecutors told him they no longer can assure that he'll escape indictment.

Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, declined to comment Friday on the specifics of the discussion with Bush. But he confirmed that his client maintains — then and now — he did not engage in an effort to disclose Plame's identity.

"He always truthfully denied that he was ever part of any campaign to punish Joe Wilson by disclosing the identity of his wife," Luskin said.

The New York Times and The Washington Post reported Saturday that Fitzgerald will meet Tuesday with Times reporter Judith Miller, who has compiled notes on a conversation she had with Libby. That conversation, on June 25, 2003, is in addition to two others previously disclosed. Miller spent 85 days in jail before testifying before the grand jury about her conversations with Libby.

In addition to Rove's discussions with reporters, investigators are looking into a delay in learning about Rove's contact with Cooper and an e-mail between Rove and now-national security adviser Steve Hadley that referred to the conversation.

Cooper's contact with Rove did not come up in Rove's first interview or grand jury appearance, but he volunteered the information and provided the e-mail during a second grand jury appearance.

Wilson went public on July 6, 2003, with criticism of administration officials, suggesting they manipulated intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq.

Eight days later, Novak revealed the identity of Wilson's wife, giving her maiden name, Valerie Plame, which she used as a CIA officer. Novak said his information about Wilson's wife had come from two senior administration officials.

Novak wrote that Plame suggested the CIA send her husband on a trip to Niger to investigate intelligence that Iraq had a deal to acquire uranium from the African country.

Wilson said he found it highly doubtful that any such transaction had occurred. The trip was the underpinning for Wilson's subsequent public criticism that the administration had twisted intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons program to exaggerate the threat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051008/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_rove

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tick, tick, tick, tick,,,,

Submitted by Veritas2020 on October 8, 2005 - 11:24am.

to indictment!

Never count these people out

Submitted by dinamic on October 8, 2005 - 2:30pm.

until it is over. Look at all the Iran Contra and Watergate crooks who have been recycled right back into this present administration. They all seem born with a no stick substance on them.

Proud member of the reality based community.

Yes...like a bad penny they are back.

Submitted by mac3 on October 12, 2005 - 12:55am.

The father pardoned them so they are back acting like they are "entitled to rule".

I have never seen any politican as uncomfortable as elder Bush being invited by Clinton to a event with all past Presidents. He had to rush out and then in...etc. to get all the attention. He resented Clinton being there period.

I guess we are going to have to pry open their fingers to let go of us. They just can't let go of the power and wealth since Reagan/Nixon. It is public service not a lifetime job.

We should retire them to "federal prison" where they can't continue their crimes against us.

Their criminal, murdering activity should never have been allowed a pardon. And they thought Clinton was over reaching his pardons.

'culture of corruption'...

Submitted by Veritas2020 on October 8, 2005 - 2:55pm.

From 1972 to 2005 --the GOP/Republican/and the new NeoCons have track records of 'criminals on parade'...

Outside of G W Bush's cabinet of greed...

--Ronald Reagan had the most criminals [employed] in the White House/ and other government agencies...

Rove lied to Bush...

Bush lied to the American people...

Cheney lied to Rove, Bush...

Libby lied to Cheney...

Cooper/Miller/Novak ..revealed 'their sources...[back to the Rove, Libby, Cheney & Bush...

makes for a day in court.

I keep thinking of that old

Submitted by Msfitts on October 8, 2005 - 3:09pm.

I keep thinking of that old saying "if you tell the truth you don't need a good memory".........
It's just lies upon lies with this bunch.

Check this out...!!

Submitted by Real American on October 10, 2005 - 11:20am.

link contains article about Miller committing perjury before grand jury so that now Fitzgerald has leverage to make her flip on the rest of the gang....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/patrick-fitzgeralds-mous_b_85...

Oops, we missed it the first time!

Submitted by googa1 on October 11, 2005 - 7:25am.

CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail
Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week. His return has created heightened concern among White House officials and their allies that Fitzgerald may be preparing to bring indictments when a federal grand jury that has been investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity expires at the end of October. Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, tells NEWSWEEK that, in his last conversations with Fitzgerald, the prosecutor assured Luskin "he has not made any decisions."

But lawyers close to the case, who asked not to be identified because it's ongoing, say Fitzgerald appears to be focusing in part on discrepancies in testimony between Rove and Time reporter Matt Cooper about their conversation of July 11, 2003. In Cooper's account, Rove told him the wife of White House critic Joseph Wilson worked at the "agency" on WMD issues and was responsible for sending Wilson on a trip to Niger to check out claims that Iraq was trying to buy uranium. But Rove did not disclose this conversation to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents in the fall of 2003—nor did he mention it during his first grand jury appearance, says one of the lawyers familiar with Rove's account. (He did not tell President George W. Bush about it either, assuring him that fall only that he was not part of any "scheme" to discredit Wilson by outing his wife, the lawyer says.) But after he testified, Luskin discovered an e-mail Rove had sent that same day—July 11—alerting deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley that he had just talked to Cooper, the lawyer says. In the e-mail, Rove said Cooper pushed him on whether the president was being hurt by the Niger controversy. "I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote Hadley, adding that he warned Cooper not to get "far out in front on this." After reviewing the e-mail, Rove then returned to the grand jury last year and reported the Cooper conversation. He testified that the talk was initially about "welfare reform"—a topic mentioned in the e-mail—and that Cooper then changed the subject. Cooper has written that he doesn't recall a discussion of welfare reform.

Why didn't the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says it's because an electronic search conducted by the White House missed it because the right "search words" weren't used. (The White House and Fitzgerald both declined to comment.) But the e-mail isn't the only belatedly discovered document in the case. Fitzgerald has also summoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller back for questioning this week: a notebook was discovered in the paper's Washington bureau, reflecting a late June 2003 conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, about Wilson and his trip to Africa, says one of the lawyers. The notebook may also be significant because Wilson's identity was not yet public. A lawyer for the Times declined to comment.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9630676/site/newsweek/

Now how many out there really believe this email was "missed"? Do any government computers work? "Terrorists" were allowed on planes on 9/11 even though their names were on the no fly lists. The FBI/CIA database does NOT work even though we have thrown millions of dollars at it. Now the White House computer doesn't have an adequate search engine? How dumb do they think we are?

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security

like it's some kind of federal program."

- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'habitat for insanity'...

Submitted by Veritas2020 on October 11, 2005 - 10:09am.

Oct 11 - AM
Habitat for Humanity [photo op]

Bush said this morning that he 'couldn't comment on the Karl Rove case'...and that Fitzgerald has aksed "not to speculate and/or comment on the case'...

since when [at this juncture] is the Rove matter a 'case' yet? --other than an investigation...

and since when has Fitzgerald 'advised Bush directly' "not" to comment and/or speculate on the matter. ...

G W Bush is the biggest 'liar' on earth...he makes things up along the way --he's doesn't have any respect for the American people.

Fitzgerald's focus...

Submitted by Veritas2020 on October 11, 2005 - 4:25pm.

'is finding out who leaked Valerie Plame's name to the media/ reporters...[he's not really after reporters]...

he's a relentless proscecutor after the truth ...and nothing but the truth...

the BushCo should be shaking in their pants --given Fitzgerald's history of getting to the bottom and the 'truth' of all his cases...

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