Rove’s Lawyer Falsely Smeared Matt Cooper
Rove’s Lawyer Falsely Smeared Matt Cooper
Luskin tried to embarrass Time reporter Matt Cooper in the New York Times by claiming Cooper never got an “express person release”:
[Cooper] told Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the Federal District Court in Washington that he had received “an express personal release from my source.” That statement surprised Mr. Luskin, Mr. Rove’s lawyer. Mr. Luskin said he had only reaffirmed the blanket waiver, in response to a request from Mr. Fitzgerald.
He essentially got a whole story on the front page of the New York Times based on that claim. In fact, Cooper did get an “express personal release.” And it was in written form. Cooper’s lawyer read it to the press corps this afternoon:
Consistent with his written waiver of confidentiality he previously executed, Mr. Rove affirms his waiver of any claim of confidentiality he may have concerning any conversation he may have had with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine during the month of July 2003.
Isn’t it time to stop smearing people and start telling the truth.
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July 13th, 2005 at 4:20 pmFor anyone still feeling the need to post about the Rove situation, please go and read this article. Thank you.
http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006955/
July 13th, 2005 at 4:21 pmI feel a SCOTUS bombshell nomination coming! They need to take the heat off Rove…. Why, they can afford to nominate just about anyone for the federal bench now…
July 13th, 2005 at 4:33 pm#2 Guess its time to move on!
July 13th, 2005 at 4:34 pmHey Usually Wrong,
Heard that spin, know it is wrong.
So,
Will Bush stand by his word or stand
July 13th, 2005 at 4:36 pmby his man? (Credit TPM).
Both. He said that anyone breaking the law to reveal the source. Rove didn’t break the law. Its as simple as that. I don’t know why I continue to bother with you people. I guess I still have hope that some of you may be saved once the entire democratic party implodes.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:40 pmHey Wrong,
That is NOT what Bush said, but it
July 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pmis another RNC spin lie.
You must have FAUX piped into you brain.
WTF! Is there no shame left at all anymore? Someone had a phrase I read recently along the lines of: The only truth is what the administration says …or what’s discovered.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pmSad that the lawyer who probably wrote the specific permission would flat out deny it and feign outrage for a day or so until finally coming clean.
The President needs to tell the American people Plame was not undercover.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:43 pmOh,# 2, The Wall Street Journal is disbursing excuses to the intellectually-challenged. They characterize Rove as “the real whistle-blower” who wanted to warn reporters about Wilson’s “lack of credibility”!!!!! Because, the WSJ says, Wilson wanted to undermine the Bush administration’s claim about its Iraq invasion plans! The WSJ conveniently forgets that Wilson was CORRECT in his assessment about the stupidity of the war, AND about the BASELESS claim of the Iraq getting uranium from Niger!
Puleezzz, don’t show us your incredibly gullible mind here. Always (R)ight means being at a rigth angle to the truths and the facts! I did read the WSJ’s article on Rove–hope others do too–not for illumination but to further understand what crow conservatives are willing to eat!
July 13th, 2005 at 4:43 pmI’m just wondering about those republicans: Even if Rove didn’t break the law, are the republicans bothered by the fact that Rove compromised a CIA operation that has been on-going for many years when he blew Plame’s cover company, Brewster-Jennings? Are they willing to ruin years of WMD spywork and endanger the lives of agents and informants, just to try to humiliate Wilson? Do they think it was worth it?
July 13th, 2005 at 4:44 pm“Rove didn’t break the law. It’s as simple as that.”
Somebody should go to the CIA right now and tell them to stop the investigation. Apparently, some guy on the internets knows all about the situation and can save the prosecutor some time.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:45 pmCosmic,
For the Right:
politics >>> national security
but you knew that.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:46 pmAlex,
I know you must be going crazy that Rove is not going to face any punishment for this but relax and get another latte and worry about something else like who Bush is going to nominate for the court next.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:48 pmWrong changed the subject!
July 13th, 2005 at 4:50 pmI win!
The conservatives have no shame…or no mind! IF this occured under a Democratic admin., we’d have COngressional hearings and some special counsel with $50 mil. to investigate… and the Repubs would be screaming & kicking!
BTW, sometimes doing the right thing is not the same as not breaking the law… no matter how you slice this, Rove did the wrong thing by disclosing such information… at the very best, his high security clearance must be revoked for being incompetent about national security matters.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:51 pmAdrift,
“no”
“yes” (”he moved on dubya”)
“remains to be seen”
Dude, the GOP has no shame, you know that! Of course if a dem had outted a CIA agent and was responsible for putting that agents entire aparatus in jepordy, the right would be (correctly) calling for that person’s head.
But of course they see no problem with 1700 dead US soldiers ,under a GOP White House, after crying bloody murder when Clinton lost 14-20 troops in Africa(can’t remember the country but “black hawk down”). They are either incredibly bad liars or they simply don’t care for they are exposed as complete hypocrites. John Pod said yesterday that he couldn’t see the big deal in this Rove/Plame deal, saying, “everybody knew that Valerie Plame was Joe Wilson’s wife.” Of course that isn’t the crime but he knows that. The crime was that everybody didn’t know that she worked for the CIA.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:55 pmThe wall Street Journal is equal to Faux News!
Rover is guilty of breaking the code of law in this Country.
bush will never live up to his word. Has he ever? NO!
Bush’s Brain is the ego tell all on Karl Rove.
Karl Rove is our Benedict Arnold.
Come on bush and RNC do something right for a change speak the Truth!where’s the 8.8 billion dollars in what bank acct? what country? I want my tax dollars back and into health care!
July 13th, 2005 at 4:56 pmAlways Right,
July 13th, 2005 at 4:57 pmYou, more than anyone, should be offended by Right lies. This wierd idea that “lying is okay’ because I agree with the Bush end game is destructive especially to you. Even I had to cringe when Clinton spewed this garbage about the semantics of “is”. Can’t you atleast cringe alittle?
Clinton lied about a blowjob, so he recovered. Bush? Not so much…
I say we blast off and nuke the site from orbit ….
July 13th, 2005 at 4:58 pmit’s the only way to be sure.
Keith – great quote from Aliens – loved the movie!
July 13th, 2005 at 5:03 pmThat’ll be one of the very few things we agree on
July 13th, 2005 at 5:19 pmI’m afraid. I can’t understand anyone but the very
rich (voting for their wallets), or the very
religious (voting for anyone that says he talks to god),
supporting this administration.
Always Right,
The outing of Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife as an undercover CIA agent (if that is what she was) would be contemptuous  not to say felonious. As former President Bush said in 1999 of those who expose intelligence agents, they are “the most insidious of traitors.” We fully agree.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030930-084107-4254r.htm
July 13th, 2005 at 5:24 pmSorry Keith H, I’m on your side, but a person can be deeply religious without being a bigoted, braindead, Republican zeolot
July 13th, 2005 at 5:35 pmoops zealot LOL
July 13th, 2005 at 5:37 pmI saw the WSJ editorial. Looks like it came right from the RNC talking points on Rove here: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Exclusive_GOP_talking_points_on_Rove_seek_to_discre_0712.html
Note that the talking points seek to discredit Wilson and not address the simple fact that a crime may have been committed.
Back to basics:
(1) Rove told Cooper that Wilson’s wife was CIA – unless Wilson has more than one, that identifies Plame
(2) Toady Novak said that he “was given the name”
(3) By outing Plame, Rove destroyed her network, her career, and damaged national security in a time of ‘war’.
(4) Wilson’s credibility is immaterial to the above facts
(5) At the very least Rove put political revenge above the security of the nation. In times past, people have been shot for what he did.
(6) Chimpy won’t let Rove be indicted, he’ll retire him and pardon him before it happens
(7) The CIA asked for this case to be investigated, not the ‘libruls’
Open questions:
(1) How did Rove get access to classified information?
(2) Who gave him that information and who is the second official?
(3) Who pushed hardest to get the yellowcake forgery in the SOTU speech?
(4) Is not the leak of Plame’s ID in a clear attack on Wilson part of the ‘intelligence being fixed around the facts’ narrative of the DSM?
(5) Does Chimpy break his word to the US or fire Rove?
I think this has garnered so much attention from the WHPC only because they hate Rove and what he did to them by controlling their access, not because they have suddenly decided to take their role seriously again.
July 13th, 2005 at 5:39 pmIn fact, since it’s a waste of time tying to convince Repub fanatics that Rove is a malevolent devious creep, let me diverge. It might be useful to ask what would Jesus, or Buddha, or Mohammed, or St. Francis of Assisi do, in assessing what these spiritual people would do if faced with some of the many situations that Rove and Bush have faced, since many of them pretend to be such good God fearing Christians.
July 13th, 2005 at 5:48 pmIf President Bush isn’t going to punish Karl Rove, you’ll just have to take matters into your own hands.
Enter the Karl Rove Whack-a-Mole Contest Today!
It’s simple. You’re Rove’s judge and jury and pass sentence. The person with the best and most fitting punishment for Turd Blossom wins an iPod Shuffle – and the thanks of a grateful nation.
July 13th, 2005 at 5:53 pmI understand that Nick, and did not mean to suggest otherwise. I just feel that is where most of his
July 13th, 2005 at 6:00 pmsupport comes from, the rich that are also greedy,
and the religious who support him only because he
claims to be a religious man.
For anyone still feeling the need to post about the Rove situation, please go and read this article. Thank you.
http://opinionjournal.com/ editorial/ feature.html?id=110006955/
Comment by Always Right  July 13, 2005
Go away, you moron.
I wouldn’t sign my name to that drivel, either.
July 13th, 2005 at 6:36 pmNobody takes the WSJ editorials seriously, anymore. Nobody!
Coopers Express Release has to be a forgery. If Mr. Luskin says Cooper never got one, then he must not have. Karl Rove would never hire a lawyer who would lie. Karl has too much respect for the truth. He’s an honorable man and we must believe him. We must believe him. We must believe him. We must believe him. We must believe himmmmmmmmmmmmm………………
July 13th, 2005 at 6:42 pmJesus commanded us to love our enemies. And Karl Rove clearly said this is not what conservatives do. Therapy and understanding is for liberals and Christians. Conservatives go to war.
July 13th, 2005 at 8:00 pmthe gop talking points on the plame affair are incredibly weak, as i stated on my blog. none of them are actually on point as to what/when rove said/did, and by being so convoluted about wilson minutae, the points lose anybody’s interest.
also, by repeating verbatim the (lame) talking points, the repubbblicans themselves look weak, uninformed, unoriginal, robotic and unable to think for themselves.
July 13th, 2005 at 8:37 pmVisit Skippy’s website! 0rI will eat yur yellow cake, dammit!
July 13th, 2005 at 8:55 pmAnd Cooper’s lawyer is: Ted Olson! Does anyone else find the irony here interesting?
July 13th, 2005 at 9:56 pmWhy not have the story “leaked” that “Karl Rove’s wife” was seen selling crystal meth to school kids? No name, just “Karl Rove’s wife.” It could be fun to see the cluster $%&! when the lawsuits start up. “Huh? We never said Darby Rove was selling it…” What’s good for the diseased goose…
July 13th, 2005 at 10:19 pm“Karl Rove’s wifeâ€? was seen selling crystal meth to school kids?”
That’s just not fair. Rove’s wife just makes very small, very high quality batches of meth that she gives to Karl and Gannon so they can stay up late at the White House working on Administration message strategy.
That’s all.
She doesn’t make it for the kids.
Jeez.
July 13th, 2005 at 10:38 pmliberalchristian57:
Ya reckon Darby knows about Karlie, Scotty and that mucho macho-ho Gannon? Oh, the horror, the horror, the sight of those three god-fearing Christians putting their love (lust!) on one another.
-Sky
July 13th, 2005 at 10:41 pmAlways Right…
That is a bit of a misnomer. Always irrelevant is more accurate. Do you have anything to say specifically related to the topic of the Rove machine desperately smearing anyone and everyone they can to shift the focus onto, or do you want to keep making more inane and off-topic remarks?
July 13th, 2005 at 11:40 pmI read on Yahoo that after 30 years the Labotomy procedure is being revisited.
Good thing.
Line up BushCo supporters. You wont feel a thing.
Now thats real patriotism!
July 14th, 2005 at 12:44 amAnd to the always crazy.
We know who Bushie going to nominate for the Supreme Court.
A neocon, lying, cheating, ugly freak who will ammend the constitution to allow him a third term.
Duh, why do you think we are very serious about having the warmongering, lying, thief impeached.
We know BushCo will stop at nothing, we know how dictators and traitors operate.
I’ll see at the White House on September 24th.
If your not too chicken that is to stand before us and support your dictator in person.
I won’t hold my breath chicken. Cant even get you to go to Iraq and fight for your oil.
July 14th, 2005 at 1:43 amSeven yrs ago this country spent millions on investigating a blow job. Big threat to National Security. Now we have an idiot whose only agenda is to war with Iraq over mythical WMD’s. And line his and Cheney’s pockets. Now his top aid is outting a CIA agent because they wanted the American people to know there are no WMD. And no one is raising hell? Or if you do raise hell your career may be in the tank. And no one is afraid. This ain’t the America I grew up in. What is going on here are people asleep?
July 14th, 2005 at 3:51 amI find that reflection is the best medicine when Rove supporters press the issue that Mr. Karl did not commit a crime by leaking confidential information about Valerie Plame to a reporter. I remember a time when a Republican President (Nixon) continued to deny any involvement in a crimnal act of burglary (Watergate) by telling the American people he did nothing wrong and he was not a crook. We all know how that one turned out.
July 14th, 2005 at 7:31 am