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Rove denies 60 Minutes charges, claims he wasn’t contacted.

On Fox News’s Election HQ today, former White House political adviser Karl Rove denied allegations made by a former GOP operative on CBS’s 60 Minutes last night that he personally told her to find evidence that former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) was cheating on his wife. Asked if CBS called him for comment, Rove said that he had spoken to them five months ago, but that they didn’t call him for comment when they decided to air the report. Watch it:

[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/RoveCBS.320.240.flv]

CBS, however, says they did contact Rove and that he responded “through his lawyer.”

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