This revelation from today’s New York Times is utterly hilarious:
WASHINGTON, July 14 – Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the columnist the name of the C.I.A. officer, who was referred to by her maiden name, Valerie Plame, and the circumstances in which her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, traveled to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq, the person said.
After hearing Mr. Novak’s account, the person who has been briefed on the matter said, Mr. Rove told the columnist: “I heard that, too.”
Game, set, match, the White House wins.
Not quite.
It also contradicts Novak’s previous statements on the issue.
Avarosis continues:
So, instead of saying “White House wins,” you might be more correct in saying, “Fitzgerald would be justified in nailing several folks in the White House- including Rove- on conspiracy.”
Cool.
Fitzgerald’s investigation at this point isn’t about blowing Valerie Plame’s cover. It’s about perjury and obstruction of justice. I’m not so sure Karl is out of the woods yet.
Did Fitzgerald report that to you? Rove’s ultimate defense should be that he got a blowjob in the White House. That instantly confers immunity, as we all know.
Conservatives are somewhat justfied in their in their hatred for George Orwell- after all, he hated them. No doubt, Rove would frown at the anti-porcine bias in Animal Farm. Ask not for whom he whines – Judge Tatel’s tale tells the truth.
George Orwell hated the pacifists and the Stalinists as well, and those on the Right can certainly appreciate these stances. Alas, the Air America crowd doesn’t get this part of his canon.
Incidentally, the receptionist at Langley isn’t a “covert agent” and neither was Plame.