Novak Debunks Rove’s Word Parsing
By on Aug 1st, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Novak Debunks Rove’s Word Parsing
Robert Novak, 8/01/05:
He told the Post reporters he had “warned” me that if I “did write about it, her name should not be revealed.” That is meaningless. Once it was determined that Wilson’s wife suggested the mission, she could be identified as “Valerie Plame” by reading her husband’s entry in “Who’s Who in America.”
Karl Rove, 8/04:
I didn’t know her name and didn’t leak her name.
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Alright, more evidience against Rove. I can’t wait to see him and the rest of this administration go down. The house of cards is starting to shake. Once it starts to fall, it will be like dominoes. Then Bush and pals can Go Straight to Jail DO Not Collect $200.
Wow, three game references in one post.
August 1st, 2005 at 6:51 pmSomebody is lying through their teeth. Could it be ALL of them?
I still don’t understand how Novak is free from jail. Maybe the Grand Jury has bigger fish to fry? I live in hope. Verily, I do.
August 1st, 2005 at 6:51 pmThat is a good question. I tell you what. If I outted a CIA agent, I would disappear off the face of the planet. The goons dressed in black would take me away so friggin’ fast, my head would spin.
August 1st, 2005 at 6:53 pmI have a post on this key point, as well as a couple others flowing from today’s Novak column.
Check out
http://cardcarryingmember.blogspot.com/2005/08/novak-breaks-silence-and-gop-argument.html
August 1st, 2005 at 7:03 pmNovak Breaks SIlence, and GOP Argument
There are three things to note about this rejoinder of Novak’s:
1. Novak does not contradict Harlow’s claim to have called Novak back. He contests other parts of the same sentence in the P-V article (for example, Harlow’s apparent statement th…
August 1st, 2005 at 7:05 pmRove knew exactly what he was doing.
That rat never makes a move (and bush has been quoted saying this) without thinking through all the angles.
It was a smoke screen because they (monkeyboy and the prince of darkness and the man behind the curtian) knew the downing street memo was going to BLOW UP IN THEIR FACE. By starting in their own back yard they thought it would take the heat away and possibly some credibility.
Monkeyboy’s latest in your face move to take the press AWAY from rove was to appoint bolton the way he did.
Rover knew, now he is through.
If you crack the one hold-out reporter, you get the entire RAT population at once. She’s protecting more than her own ass ettes.
This administration is corrupt to the bone. (not the one that monkeyboy is famous for showing us through the years.)
August 1st, 2005 at 9:05 pmThe funniest thing is that Bushy takes the light off Rove by appointing Bolton like this, then CNN covers up for Bushy by replacing his Bolton nomination on the front page with that baseball player being suspended for steroid use.
What the hell is wrong with this country. The president appointed a questionable ambassador to the U.N. today. The part that the republicans can’t seem to figure out is that we are not the only people watching them like a hawk. There is a whole world full of other countries out there that are getting fed up with this administartions bully tactics.
Picture a scene just like what happened to Slobodan Milosovic, then replace Bush and his gang with Slobo.
Of course, our Lear Jets would scramble our Hummer H2s would roll and the throngs of Bushites would overtake that infidels and restore our dictator back into power.
August 1st, 2005 at 10:30 pmHer name wasn’t a secret. The fact that she was married to Wilson wasn’t a secret. Her identity as a CIA oporative on WMDs was a secret.
Smoke screens…
August 1st, 2005 at 10:39 pmThe CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. -http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml
Why would the CIA ask his wife to contact him if they wanted him to go to Niger, why not contact him directly? Bill Harlow may have blown her cover with that, I mean come on. Whatever, when it all comes out we will see, but notice dhimmicrats are not wasting as much time on this as you guys, think they know something you don’t? LOL.
August 2nd, 2005 at 2:37 amNobody here reads Townhall. Nobody but the idiot boy who links to them.
August 2nd, 2005 at 4:34 amC’mon, Fake. 2:00 in the am?
August 2nd, 2005 at 10:53 amYou sound like a villain in a soap opera.
Sure they know something we don’t, fba. They know Bush has thought of another thousand ways to harm America since the Rove story broke. You think he stopped thinking of ways to harm America after outing a CIA agent? I don’t think so. He certainly promised not to.
And Bush is a man who does what he says.
August 2nd, 2005 at 11:54 amFasicismBreedsIgnorance,
You ask the most irrelevant and nonsensical questions. Had it ever occured to you that they thought if they asked his wife to ask him that he might be more likely to take the job?
Wilson probably already knew his wife was undercover as spouses often do in this situation, and whether one’s spouse knows or not is up to the CIA agent. And if you are a CIA manager with a reporter about to blow the cover on one of your agents whether you speak or not, you might very well also choose to reason with him in the interests of national security and say the act would be ‘damaging’ just as Harlow did. He didn’t ‘out’ her – he simply informed Novak of the risks and damages he could do.
Now stop being so frigging stupid – or get a brain transplant!
August 2nd, 2005 at 7:10 pmThe more that comes out on this issue the more of a non-issue it seems to be. We now know that Valerie Plame had not been an undercover operative for six years prior to the Novak article. So what was being disclosed here? The name of an employee? Is it illegal to name an administrative employee of the CIA? Plame was certainly not a clandestine operative at the time.
Plus, doesn’t it seem odd that the CIA would use Wilson’s wife to handle the case? And if she was simply told by CIA handlers to send someone, isn’t it odd that she chose her husband? I’d think that the possibilty of a conflict of interest would dictate they find another CIA employee to handle the case or that Plame find another ‘diplomat’ for the job. I’m curious as to how ths was handled by the CIA and who was actually pulling the strings.
The whole incident stinks and not just from the anti-Bushies’ perspective.
In the end nothing will happen to Rove and the Wilson’s will have gotten their 15 minutes of fame… speaking of which, if anonymity is so vital to Plame’s job, what the hell is she doing in a Vanity Fair article with her ‘disguised’ face so prominently featured? Oh, that’s right. Her non-clandestine cover had already been uncovered…
August 3rd, 2005 at 4:32 pmMr. Mark…. Mark of the devil.
Obviously a republithug in sheeps clothing.
Probably willing to make more of an issue of a B.J. than of Treason!
Heil Bush!!!!
August 8th, 2005 at 4:30 amLOL! Simply looking at this from a practical standpoint. It is turning into much ado about nothing… just like BJ’s in the Oval Office!!
August 9th, 2005 at 10:52 am