On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:22:20 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On 16 Jul 2005 12:39:39 -0700, jim rozen
wrote:
On the claims that the White House was actively seeking to discredit
Wilson and out Plame...


It now turns out, according to multiple published reports, that
columnist Robert Novak did not learn about Plame's CIA connection from
Rove.

If anything, it was the other way around: Novak called the White House
and asked Rove if he'd heard anything about Plame working for the CIA.
Rove then responded that he'd "heard the same thing" - from another
journalist.

And newly disclosed e-mails show that Time magazine's Matt Cooper
approached Rove about Plame, not the other way around.

As to Plame being covered by the 1982 law that Rove. or whomever the
headhunters seek to vilify next, is being accused of violating...


a.. Wilson Thursday night told CNN his wife "was not a clandestine
officer on the day that Bob Novak blew her identity." He quickly
reversed himself, but the damage had been done.
b.. It is now clear that the 1982 law that makes it a crime to
knowingly expose covert U.S. intelligence agents doesn't apply to
Plame, because of specific statutory time limits.

In any event, a re-reading of the original Novak column and subsequent
writings confirms that Novak didn't identify her as a covert
operative, either. (He says had he thought she was covert, he'd never
have used the information.)

The first writer to refer to her as working covertly (notes Clifford
May on National Review Online) was David Corn, Washington
correspondent of the far-left magazine The Nation, in an article three
days after Novak's column appeared.

Which raises the question of how Corn, who went into a great amount of
detail about her specific job, got the information - because you can
rest assured it didn't come from Karl Rove.

In fact, as May - a former New York Times foreign correspondent -
points out, all the evidence suggests strongly that Corn's secret
source was . . . Joe Wilson.


Curiouser and curiouser...


Gunner

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