Did Rove Admit To Partial Responsibility For The Plame Leak?

[ConcernedDemocrat]

This is an old article from March 2004, but it is interesting

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/03/waas-m-03-08.html

Plugging Leaks
More details emerge on the Plame investigation, as Karl Rove's testimony is revealed for the first time.

President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, told the FBI in an interview last October that he circulated and discussed damaging information regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame with others in the White House, outside political consultants, and journalists, according to a government official and an attorney familiar with the ongoing special counsel's investigation of the matter.

But Rove also adamantly insisted to the FBI that he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame was a covert CIA operative to conservative columnist Robert Novak last July. Rather, Rove insisted, he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column. He also told the FBI, the same sources said, that circulating the information was a legitimate means to counter what he claimed was politically motivated criticism of the Bush administration by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.




According to sources, Rove, in his interview with the FBI, said that he and others on the White House's political staff wanted to contain the political fallout from Wilson's allegations, and that they thought the charge of favoritism was a legitimate issue. Rove added that when he steered others in the direction of the now-disproved charges, he believed them to be true, in part because he regarded Novak as a credible news source.

[randr]

1. Does Rove have legal access to

CIA opperative information?

[stepnw1f]

2. BINGO!

[ConcernedDemocrat]

4. Rove is saying

That he "circulated" the information inside the WH but he didn't actually leak to Novak, that somebody else did it.

Of course a low ranking official wouldn't have leaked to Novak without Rove's permission so I think Rove could still be indicted.

However I'm not a lawyer.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. This is just ridiculous. When are the "responsible" men going to

be held accountable? This is millions times worse than Monica.

[rfranklin]

3. Bullshit...he had one of his operatives leak it...

Ultimately, he is the source.

[mckara]

6. Who In Their Right Mind Believes Robert "No Facts"...

Who In Their Right Mind Believes Robert "No Facts"... has any credibility? Rove is lying about Plame AND Novak!

[GCP]

7. I learned something I didn't know in the movie "Bush's Brain"

Rove was fired in 1980 from the Reagan-Bush campaign for leaking --- to Novak.

Hmmmm.

[leveymg]

8. This is Gannon's alibi, as well.

Ok - When is Fitzgerald FINALLY going to indict SOMEONE? ANYONE?

[me b zola]

9. The entire chain of traitors needs to be imprisoned

The person with the security clearance that exposed Plames's name to KKKarl to Novak, and everyone in between. Anyone who handled this classified info is guilty. The frog march is long overdue for this crew.