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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (53100)	7/19/2005 12:02:33 AM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

While Novak published a column on the 14th on Townhall.com, the story had already been distributed by the AP early on July 11th, hours before Cooper and Rove even spoke on the phone. 8 July, 2003 Robert Novak, after being told of Plame's identity by an unspecified senior Bush administration official, has phone conversation with Karl Rove in which C.I.A. agent Plame is dicussed. Novak is reported to have told Rove the name of the agent and her role in Wilson's mission to Africa. 11 July, 2003, 07:15 a.m.: Veteran conservative commentator Robert Novak's regular syndicated column is distributed by Creators Syndicate on the AP wire. 11 July, 2003, 11:07 a.m: On the same day that Novak's syndicated story emerged, Rove spoke to Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper about Wilson's wife being a CIA agent. Cooper e-mailed his bureau chief. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ..." . Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on WMD issues who authorized the trip." Rove also told Cooper that, "there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger". (Newsweek) Rove will later say he only discussed Plame's identity after Novak revealed it.