MSNBC has the Today show video. “Wilson said Rove also had a role since Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper has said it was Rove who told him about Plame.” Wilson also told Couric that Rove is a “party to the compromise of national security of this country.”
On ABC’s This Week yesterday, Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid also called on President Bush to fire Karl Rove and apologize to the nation. Crooks & Liars has Reid’s statement on video. Raw Story links the WaPo story on Reid’s remarks.
Wilson, who appears today on CNN’s Situation Room between 3pm-6pm ET, told Ed Bradley of CBS’s 60 Minutes last night (article / 60 Minutes video) that “[i]t was the White House that decided they were going to go after me, and the tactic they decided to use was to go after my wife.” Crooks & Liars also has excerpts of the 60 Minutes segment.
This was done to silence others. This was a shot across the bow to others. The message was if you do to us what Wilson did to us, we’ll do to you what we just did to Wilson’s family.
“Her career has been ended,” [former CIA agent Jim Marcinkowsk] said on 60 Minutes. The MSNBC article also quotes another former CIA agent, BoomanTribune contributor Larry Johnson, a CIA classmate of Valerie Plame, who he knew only as Val P.:
For all intents and purposes out at the CIA, she’s like a leper … she’s radioactive.”
For more talking points on the CIA leak case, read Larry’s recent stories here:
- Bob Woodward, Lost in Cronyism?, Oct. 30
- Update on the Lies of Ambassador Wilson, Oct. 30
- A Good Start, Oct. 28
- The Marriage Canard and Valerie Plame, Oct. 27
Update [2005-10-31 10:59:14 by susanhu]: Larry Johnson is Amy Goodman’s guest for a major segment today on Democracy Now!. You can listen or watch, dial-up or broadband. On DISH satellite, I watch DN! on both Free Speech TV and LINK TV. LINK TV is also on DirectTV satellite.