WASHINGTON (July 10) - Top White House advisor Karl Rove was one of the secret sources that spoke to reporters about a covert CIA operative whose identity was leaked to the media, Newsweek magazine reported in its latest edition.
The magazine said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove talked to Time magazine about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Luskin said Rove recently gave Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper permission to testify about the conversation to a grand jury investigating the 2003 leak, according to Newsweek.
A U.S. federal judge ordered Cooper, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, to testify and reveal their confidential sources.
Last week Cooper avoided a jail sentence for contempt of court by agreeing to testify in the case. Miller refused to testify and was jailed.
So the truth finally is starting to come out. It was Karl Rove who leaked the Valerie Plame story to Time reporter Matt Cooper. I wonder if he also leaked Plame's name to Robert Novak?
The Bush White House has been one of the most vindictive administrations I've seen since Richard Nixon. They expect absolute loyalty and secrecy on everything they have done. And if you turn against them, they will do everything they can to destroy your reputation--even breaking the law. Former ambassador Joseph Wilson is sent by the CIA to investigate claims that Iraq was buying uranium for nuclear weapons from Africa. He finds no truth to the claims, even though the Bush administration uses those claims to justify their going to war in Iraq. When Wilson tells his story to the New York Times, the Bush White House destroys Wilson's reputation by leaking his wife's CIA cover--a federal crime. Wilson contradicted the Bush White House lies, so Wilson must be destroyed. When United Nations inspector Scott Ritter reported there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, his reputation was destroyed within a major public relations campaign. You can see this throughout the administration--you are either with us or against us mentality.
The Bush administration does not govern through a careful consideration of facts or information gathered through the different government agencies. The Bush administration governs through ideology. The Bush White House will cherry-pick facts which will support its ideological views and their policies, while discrediting or ignoring all other facts contradicting its assertions. Or even worst, the Bush White House will continue to pound their ideological views and their facts into the American public again and again and again, until the American public accepts the White House line as truth. Couple this perverted White House PR blitz with the corporate medias desire to investigate stories which boost ratings and pad their bottom-line profits (i.e. the Michael Jackson molestation trial) while ignoring serious, complex stories that have greater impact in the American public's daily lives, and you have a perfect storm of corruption and greed by the powerful. You have a situation where Karl Rove can break the law by revealing Valerie Plame to the press, and get away with it. There is no dissent in the Bush White House. There is no development of policies through careful, logical analysis. There is only ideology--on foreign policy, economics, environment, energy. Policies are developed on the basis of their ideological views. And if you're not with us on those ideological views, then you're against us.
And we will destroy you.
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