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How To Talk To A Conservative About Karl Rove (If You Must) |
How To Talk To A Conservative About Karl Rove (If You Must)
Everything you need to fight back against the right-wing misinformation
campaign.
CLAIM: White House Can’t Comment While Investigation Is Ongoing
McClellan: “While that investigation is ongoing, the White House is not
going to comment on it.”
FACT: White House Has Repeatedly Commented During the Ongoing
Investigation McClellan had previously cited that same investigation and
then gone on to answer the questions as they pertained to Rove. For
example, on October 1, 2003, he said, “There’s an investigation going on
… you brought up Karl’s name. Let’s be very clear. I thought — I said it
was a ridiculous suggestion, I said it’s simply not true that he was
involved in leaking classified information, and — nor, did he condone
that kind of activity.” Similarly, on October 10, 2003, McClellan said,
“I think it’s important to keep in mind that this is an ongoing
investigation.” But he then added with regard to a question about Rove’s
involvement, “I spoke with those individuals, as I pointed out, and
those individuals assured me they were not involved in this.”
CLAIM: Rove Didn’t Leak The Name So He’s Not Guilty Rove: “I didn’t know
her name and didn’t leak her name.” Rove attorney Robert Luskin said “he
did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.”
FACT: National Security Law Says Identifying Covert Agent Is Illegal
Rove at the very least identified Plame as “Wilson’s wife.” Under
section 421 of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the
disclosure of “any information identifying [a] covert agent” is illegal.
CLAIM: White House Didn’t Push The Story Rove’s lawyer Robert Luskin
claims Cooper manipulated what Rove said to him “in a pretty ugly
fashion to make it seem like people in the White House were
affirmatively reaching out to reporters to try to get them to report
negative information about Plame.”
FACT: There Was An Organized Campaign To Push Leak Info First, Robert
Novak admitted: “I didn’t dig it out [Plame’s identity], it was given to
me…. They [the White House] thought it was significant, they gave me the
name and I used it.” Second, Rove told Chris Matthews that Plame’s
identity was “fair game.” Third, Time magazine reported the orchestrated
campaign against Wilson in October 2003: “In the days after Wilson’s
essay appeared, government officials began to steer reporters away from
Wilson’s conclusions.”
CLAIM: Conversation Was About Welfare Reform, So Rove Didn’t Do Anything
Wrong National Review’s Byron York: “According to Luskin, the fact that
Rove did not call Cooper; that the original purpose of the call, as
Cooper told Rove, was welfare reform.”
FACT: What They Spoke About Was Irrelevant The original purpose of the
conversation between Rove and Cooper is irrelevant. It has no bearing on
the fact that Rove did identify a covert agent during that conversation.
CLAIM: Plame Wasn’t An Undercover Agent Ed Rogers, former official under
Reagan/Bush: “I think it is now a matter of established fact that Mrs.
Plame was not a protected covert agent, and I don’t think there’s any
meaningful investigation about that.”
FACT: Former CIA Officer Who Worked With Plame Verified She Was
Undercover Larry Johnson, former CIA officer: “Valerie Plame was a
classmate of mine from the day she started with the CIA. I entered on
duty at the CIA in September 1985. All of my classmates were
undercover–in other words, we told our family and friends that we were
working for other overt U.S. Government agencies. We had official
cover.”
CLAIM: Rove Was Trying To Correct A False Story Rove attorney Luskin
added, “What Karl was trying to do … was to warn Time away from
publishing things that were going to be established as false.”
FACT: Wilson Was Right, Bush Was Wrong Bloomberg recently reported,
“Two-year old assertions by former ambassador Joseph Wilson regarding
Iraq and uranium, which lie at the heart of the controversy over who at
the White House identified a covert U.S. operative, have held up in the
face of attacks by supporters of presidential adviser Karl Rove.”
CLAIM: Wilson Lied About His Trip To Niger Former Rove deputy Ken
Mehlman: “What Joe Wilson alleged was that the vice president, then he
said the CIA director sent him to Niger.” [CNN, 7/12/05]
FACT: Wilson Never Said Cheney Personally Sent Him To Niger Bloomberg
reported, “Wilson never said that Cheney sent him, only that the vice
president’s office had questions about an intelligence report that
referred to the sale of uranium yellowcake to Iraq from Niger. Wilson,
in his New York Times article, said CIA officials were informed of
Cheney’s questions. ‘The agency officials asked if I would travel to
Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the
vice president’s office,’ Wilson wrote.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/14/rove-primer/
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