Of course, libs are calling for Rove to resign based on this newstory by Michael Isikoff:
Matt Cooper's Source:
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter.
Supposedly, Newsweek has the Cooper email. They would not release it in its entirety, but here are the parts reconstructed from the story.
Here are the contents revealed (P&C=Personal & Confidential):
To: bureau chief Michael Duffy
From: Time correspondent Matt Cooper
Subject: Rove/P&C,
Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ...
...big warning...
...not to get too far out on Wilson. ...
...not only the genesis of the trip is flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied strongly there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger ...
...Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney...
...it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip...
...please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]
The Newsweek article then states:
Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative.
A source close to Rove, who declined to be identified because he did not wish to run afoul of the prosecutor or government investigators, added that there was "absolutely no inconsistency" between Cooper's e-mail and what Rove has testified to during his three grand-jury appearances in the case. "A fair reading of the e-mail makes clear that the information conveyed was not part of an organized effort to disclose Plame's identity, but was an effort to discourage Time from publishing things that turned out to be false," the source said, referring to claims in circulation at the time that Cheney and high-level CIA officials arranged for Wilson's trip to Africa.
Looks like another big Demo-sham? The leak has an alternate source? Of course, this has been known since about 2003 when Novak stated that Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this.
Joe Wilson, Valeria Plame's husband, does not even believe Rove is the source of the leak. Check here.
However, the insinuations and calls for resignation live on, despite reality...
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