QueenAdrock
08-01-2005, 07:51 PM
I don't know if any of y'all saw this on Keith Olbermann, or even watch Countdown for that matter, but if not, I found this interesting:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
SECAUCUS — Call it the CIA Leak Investigation, or the Valerie Plame follow-up, or the Karl Rove Case. By whichever name, it may have just turned from the difficult-to-follow, and legally subtle, pursuit of someone who could’ve violated a complicated law about not deliberately revealing the identity of covert agents into something much simpler.
The special prosecutor may be going after Karl Rove — and Scooter Libby — for making false statements to the prosecutors.
In other words: lying.
Bloomberg News quoting ‘people familiar with the case’ says that while Rove told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that he first learned Agent Plame’s name from columnist Robert Novak, the news service reports Novak “has given a somewhat different version to the special prosecutor.”
Rove also told prosecutors a version of his conversation with Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper that doesn’t match up to Cooper’s testimony.
Several news organizations noted that Rove testified that Cooper had called him on July 11, 2003 to, at least nominally, talk about welfare reform. Cooper reportedly switched topics quickly to Wilson and the uranium from Niger mentioned in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address.
But Cooper reportedly testified that he never talked about welfare reform in that conversation with Rove.
As to Libby — the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney — Bloomberg reports that he told prosecutors he first learned Plame’s identity from Tim Russert of NBC News. The organization also says Russert testified to the grand jury that Libby’s testimony is not true.
The New York Times, meanwhile, reports that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is simultaneously also investigating how Rove and Libby drafted a statement for CIA Director George Tenet to make on the Joe Wilson Op-Ed — specifically to see if that and other “damage control” by Rove and Libby might have led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s work.
And to see what information or documents Rove and Libby might have had access to as they prepared the Tenet statement.
And that main-lines back to the Wall Street Journal story that John Harwood broke on this newscast Thursday night...
An internal State Department document, prepared for an under-secretary of state, and seen by the then Secretary of State Colin Powell, mentioned Valerie Plame’s CIA work — and to remind readers that her work was classified. The portions pertaining to her were marked “T.S.” for Top Secret and “S/NF,” a designation meaning in essence ‘classified — do not share with foreign intelligence services, even friendly ones.’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
SECAUCUS — Call it the CIA Leak Investigation, or the Valerie Plame follow-up, or the Karl Rove Case. By whichever name, it may have just turned from the difficult-to-follow, and legally subtle, pursuit of someone who could’ve violated a complicated law about not deliberately revealing the identity of covert agents into something much simpler.
The special prosecutor may be going after Karl Rove — and Scooter Libby — for making false statements to the prosecutors.
In other words: lying.
Bloomberg News quoting ‘people familiar with the case’ says that while Rove told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that he first learned Agent Plame’s name from columnist Robert Novak, the news service reports Novak “has given a somewhat different version to the special prosecutor.”
Rove also told prosecutors a version of his conversation with Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper that doesn’t match up to Cooper’s testimony.
Several news organizations noted that Rove testified that Cooper had called him on July 11, 2003 to, at least nominally, talk about welfare reform. Cooper reportedly switched topics quickly to Wilson and the uranium from Niger mentioned in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address.
But Cooper reportedly testified that he never talked about welfare reform in that conversation with Rove.
As to Libby — the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney — Bloomberg reports that he told prosecutors he first learned Plame’s identity from Tim Russert of NBC News. The organization also says Russert testified to the grand jury that Libby’s testimony is not true.
The New York Times, meanwhile, reports that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is simultaneously also investigating how Rove and Libby drafted a statement for CIA Director George Tenet to make on the Joe Wilson Op-Ed — specifically to see if that and other “damage control” by Rove and Libby might have led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s work.
And to see what information or documents Rove and Libby might have had access to as they prepared the Tenet statement.
And that main-lines back to the Wall Street Journal story that John Harwood broke on this newscast Thursday night...
An internal State Department document, prepared for an under-secretary of state, and seen by the then Secretary of State Colin Powell, mentioned Valerie Plame’s CIA work — and to remind readers that her work was classified. The portions pertaining to her were marked “T.S.” for Top Secret and “S/NF,” a designation meaning in essence ‘classified — do not share with foreign intelligence services, even friendly ones.’