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From: redfish	7/3/2005 6:41:18 AM
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Given that Lawrence O'Donnell has connections with Newsweek, we can be fairly sure about his sources for "Karl Rove is the leaker!" come from the people working on the Newsweek article for the July 11 issue. But this article doesn't confirm that Rove is in the wrong at all--and it's clear from it that Newsweek doesn't know anything for sure. O'Donnell is inferring from the limited speculative facts of this article that Rove is the one who leaked it, but that is a big jump. All the article says is that: (1) Rove and Cooper communicated. (2) They communicated before the Novak column (but before Novak told Rove he knew? That's left unsaid). (3) No one knows what they communicated about. (4) Rove's lawyer says he didn't knowingly release any classified material and didn't say that Plame worked for the CIA (which, since he knows that the documents are coming out this week, would be a stupid thing to lie about). (5) Rove has testified and answered every question put to him (6) Rove signed a waiver allowing reporters to testify concerning their involvement with him (why would someone go to jail for refusing to testify about someone who had signed a waiver allowing them to testify about them?). (7) Some laywers of some Republicans involved in the case say, secondhand, that people in the White House are "concerned". It seems that O'Donnell and the Huffington Post is jumping to partisan conclusions that are unwarranted by the facts that we know. I doubt he knows much more than what is in this article, because why would Time tell a Newweek man the very secrets a reporter was about to go to jail to keep from having to reveal? huffingtonpost.com leaking-of-classified.html

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