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To: Skywatcher who wrote (28959)	7/18/2005 1:56:30 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 362352

No names, but Rove was leaker Tim Reid, Washington July 19, 2005 A REPORTER at the centre of a scandal over who leaked an undercover CIA official's identity to the press has broken his silence to say it was Karl Rove, George W.Bush's chief political adviser, who first told him about the agent. Matthew Cooper, of Time magazine, said it was from Mr Rove, who is under intense pressure to explain his role in the affair, that he first learned about the existence of Valerie Plame, the agent in question. Cooper, recounting testimony he gave last week to a federal grand jury investigating the leak, said Mr Rove did not disclose the woman's name, or say anything to suggest that he knew she was a covert agent. But Cooper said he was told by Mr Rove that information was about to be "declassified" and made public to discredit the woman's husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who had accused the Bush administration of exaggerating the threat of Iraq's weapons. Cooper said Mr Rove told him that Mr Wilson's wife worked at the CIA on weapons of mass destruction issues and ended the call by saying: "I've already said too much." Cooper said yesterday: "This could have meant he was worried about being indiscreet, or it could have meant he was late for a meeting ... but that sign-off has been in my memory for two years." Cooper also disclosed for the first time that the other White House source for an article he wrote about Mr Wilson in July 2003 was Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who also did not mention Ms Plame by name. But Cooper's comments also appeared to help Mr Rove. It is a criminal offence to knowingly reveal the identity of a covert agent. "Did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No," Cooper wrote in Time. But he wrote: "Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned. theaustralian.news.com.au