For an administration that doesn’t like leaks, the dam has burst wide open this weekend. This latest one favours Rove once again, so we all know who’s leaking to who and why right now.
Rove told then-deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley in the July 11, 2003, e-mail that he had spoken with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and tried to caution him away from some allegations that CIA operative Valerie Plame’s husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.
“I didn’t take the bait,” Rove wrote in the message, disclosed to The Associated Press. In the memo, Rove recounted how Cooper tried to question him about whether President Bush had been hurt by the new allegations Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had been making.
The bait? Can they possibly try any harder to make Rove look like some sort of innocent victim in all of this? Seriously…
Rove, however, told the grand jury he first learned of Plame’s CIA work from journalists, not government sources.
With all of this fast and furious leaking going on this weekend so Rove can try to cover his butt, can someone please now leak who this supposed reporter was? This is getting tiresome already.
“When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn’t this damaging? Hasn’t the president been hurt? I didn’t take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn’t get Time far out in front on this.”
Is this the new and improved altruistic Karl Rove? C’mon.
Now Hadley’s lawyer is clamming up, citing the “ongoing investigation” mantra. This is all being leaked courtesy of anonymous sources who claim that they must maintain the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings. If it’s so damn secret, why are they running around telling people that Rove is just some innocent dupe here? I think Ken Mehlman just had an orgasm.