AP Conveniently Forgets Rove's Role

From today: "Bush, Cheney Urged to Apologize for Aides"

Reid also said that Karl Rove, the president's closest political adviser, should step down. Rove has not been charged with a crime.

The closest the indictment comes to Rove is its discussion of an unnamed senior White House official who talked to columnist Robert Novak about Plame and discussed the matter with Libby. That could describe Rove.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation;_ylt=AgzfcWd8qY6hdY1m.DKt8iqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

People have been out there saying quite plainly that "Official A" is Rove, even if the indictment had no mention of him by name (as Fitzgeral explained).

Further, the AP conveniently omitted any reference to the background facts on Rove's involvement: the fact that Rove leaked the info to Matt Cooper BEFORE Novak's column -- this according to Rove's own lawyer! -- and that Rove also told Chris Matthews that Plame was "fair game."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8445696/site/newsweek/

The only other mentions of Rove from this AP article:
When the investigation began, the White House denied that Rove had been involved. Bush promised to fire anyone on his staff responsible for such a leak. He later stepped back, saying just that he would remove aides who committed crimes.

"I think Karl Rove should step down," Reid said. "Here is a man who the president said if he was involved, if anyone in the administration was involved, out they would go."

Well then, it seems Reid and others calling for apologies or resignation or firing of THIS aide are just jumping to conclusions, since according to THIS article, Rove hasn't been charged with a crime and isn't even known to be the "official" mentioned in the indictment (it "could describe him," that's all. Period. Nothing else you need to know about Rove -- move along.

kind of service they are. AP has desk writers summirize the many articles out there. These aren't field reporters. And this is a subscription type of service. So it is a good enough service, but not a direct reporting based on what I know and I always disliked the idea that the writers are mostly desk, remote writers...

Articles like this end up in newspapers all over the place. They should have given the full background on Rove to explain WHY people are calling for his resignation, firing, and/or apologies from Chimp.