TIME's Matt Cooper on Rove's Sunday-talk-show account of CIA leak: "Nonsense"

CNN: August 20, 2007
Reporter disputes Rove's account of CIA leak

WASHINGTON (CNN) – White House political adviser Karl Rove denied Sunday he confirmed the identity of ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson for a 2003 newspaper column, but a reporter who testified in the leak probe called that "nonsense."

In comments to two Sunday talk shows, Rove disputed columnist and former CNN host Robert Novak's account of the leak. Novak, who disclosed Mrs. Wilson's identity in a July 2003 column, has said Rove confirmed her identity after another Bush administration official, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, first told him she worked for the CIA.

Rove told NBC's "Meet the Press" that, when Novak asked him about Mrs. Wilson, he told the columnist, "I've heard that, too." But he insisted that did not mean he had confirmed her identity.

"If a journalist had said to me, 'I'd like you to confirm this,' my answer would have been, 'I can't. I don't know. I've heard that, too,' " he said....

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But former Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper, who testified about his conversations with Rove in the grand jury probe, said Rove's account was "dissembling, to put it charitably."

"To imply that he didn't know about it or that this was all the leak by someone else, or he heard it as some rumor out in the hallway is, is nonsense," Cooper told NBC....

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/20/reporter-disputes-roves-account-of-cia-leak/

I hear they had Krispy Kreme donuts and Caribou Coffee.

"I never said that Valarie Plame was fair game." Will Tweety respond?

up and saying that!! And Tweety pulled the phrase out of his ass!

Ya know, I wouldn't be surprised if Tweety has some sort of memory aid tape of the conversation. Now, depending on the wiretap rules for his location where he received that call, it could be that he can't reveal that he has the thing, but still and all, it wouldn't surprise me....

They left Dave Gregory to do clean up. They should give him the show. Russert is a rotten potato, IMO. Past his sell-by date.

I gotta wonder about a guy who makes a million off his father, but doesn't have a goddamn word to say about his mother, who likely did the heavy lifting around the house.

Foolish is the man who doesn't respect and honor his muddah!!!

IMO....!!!!!!

But hey, that's not "cool" with the Boyz, I guess he's thinkin'....