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To: one_less who wrote (52152)	7/11/2005 3:47:51 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

If the Newsweak story is correct....its unlikely the prosecutor will be able to prove a violation of the act... J.

To: one_less who wrote (52152)	7/11/2005 4:32:55 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 173976

For two years, the White House has insisted that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a CIA officer's identity. And President Bush said the leaker would be fired. But Bush's spokesman wouldn't repeat any of those assertions Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer saying his client spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified in a newspaper column. Rove described the woman to a reporter as someone who "apparently works" at the CIA, according to an e-mail obtained by Newsweek magazine. White House press secretary Scott McClellan refused to discuss the matter at two news briefings Monday. He said he would not comment because the leak is the focus of a federal criminal investigation. For two years, the White House has insisted that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a CIA officer's identity. And President Bush said the leaker would be fired.