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15 Jul 2005 11:48:09 PM |
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CNN forgets Rove falsehood on its own broadcasts |
CNN forgets Rove falsehood on its own broadcasts
http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200507150006
On the July 15 edition of CNN Live Today, host Daryn Kagan
described recent news articles reporting that White House
senior adviser Karl Rove had learned the name of CIA operative
Valerie Plame before leaking her identity to a reporter,
but left viewers in the dark that this revelation directly
contradicts Rove's August 31, 2004, statement on her own
cable news channel that "I didn't know her name.
I didn't leak her name."
On the same day's edition of CNN's Live From ..., White House
correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported that, according to a
"lawyer familiar with the grand jury investigation," Rove learned
Plame's name prior to his conversation with Time reporter
Matthew Cooper and that Rove did not reveal her name "because
he was trying to be discreet." Like Kagan, Malveaux failed to
mention Rove's prior claim on CNN that he "didn't know her name."
Reporting on a July 15 New York Times article, which noted
"Mr. Rove has told investigators that he learned from the
columnist [Robert D. Novak] the name of the C.I.A. officer"
during a July 8, 2003, phone conversation, Kagan stated:
KAGAN: There is a new twist to the Karl Rove-CIA leak controversy.
Latest reports indicating that the president's top political
adviser may have actually learned the identity of a former
CIA operative, Valerie Plame, from a reporter. That reporter,
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and CNN political analyst
Robert Novak. Both The New York Times and the Associated Press
cite an unnamed source as saying Novak mentioned Plame's name
after calling Rove, and revealing she worked for the CIA.
Kagan did not make it clear in her report, but in fact,
the most significant revelation in the Times article --
and a similar article in the Associated Press -- was that
prior to Rove's July 11 conversation with Cooper, he already
knew not only that Plame worked for the CIA, but also her
actual name. This new disclosure contradicts Rove's statement
nearly a year after the Novak conversation that he
"didn't know her name."
The interview aired on an August 31, 2004, special edition
of CNN"s NewsNight with Aaron Brown:
JOHN KING (CNN senior White House correspondent): [unintelligible] ...
administration officials who have been questioned in this whole
investigation, did someone in the White House leak the name of
the CIA operative? What is your assessment of the status of the
investigation, and can you tell us that you had nothing to do with...
ROVE: Well, I'll repeat what I said to ABC News when this whole
thing broke some number of months ago. I didn't know her name.
I didn't leak her name. This is at the Justice Department.
I'm confident that the U.S. attorney, the prosecutor who's
involved in looking at this, is going to do a very thorough
job of doing a very substantial and conclusive investigation.
Similarly, Malveaux's Live From ... report did not point out that the
claims of an anonymous "lawyer familiar with the grand jury investigation"
contradicted Rove's assertion on CNN that he "didn't know her [Plame's]
name."
According to Malveaux, the lawyer claimed that Rove actually
learned Plame's name from Novak several days prior to his conversation
with Cooper and chose not to reveal her name in an alleged effort
"to be discreet."
From the July 15 edition of CNN's Live From ...:
MALVEAUX: Now the interesting twist here, of course, is that
learning from a lawyer familiar with the grand jury testimony.
He said earlier today that it was a conversation on
July 9 [sic], 2003; that it was Novak that called Rove;
that he was the one who revealed the name of the CIA agent,
Valerie Plame; that Rove responded that he had heard this too,
that this was on the level of gossip and rumor, but that Rove
did not know the identity of Valerie Plame until it was columnist
Robert Novak who told him during that conversation. Also, he says
that it was July 11, 2003, just two days afterwards, that Rove
spoke with Time magazine's Matt Cooper. He did not mention Plame's
name during that conversation, according to this source, because
he was trying to be discreet. This lawyer's saying that this
demonstrates that Rove was a consumer of information,
not necessarily a provider.
___________________________________________________________________________
Karl Rove Political Pieta:
http://www.startribune.com/stonline/images/news85/7asack071804.l.jpg
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16 Jul 2005 02:09:08 AM |
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"......But the person said *Mr. Rove first heard
from Mr. Novak* the name of Mr. Wilson's wife.."
NEW YORK TIMES
July 16, 2005
State Dept. Memo Gets Scrutiny
in Leak Inquiry on C.I.A. Officer
By RICHARD STEVENSON
This article was reported by Douglas Jehl, David Johnston and Richard
W. Stevenson and was written by Mr. Stevenson.
WASHINGTON, July 15 -
Prosecutors in the C.I.A. leak case have shown intense interest in a
2003 State Department memorandum that explained how a former
diplomat came to be dispatched on an intelligence-gathering mission
and the role of his wife, a C.I.A. officer, in the trip, people who
have been officially briefed on the case said.
Investigators in the case have been trying to learn whether officials
at the White House and elsewhere in the administration learned of the
C.I.A. officer's identity from the memorandum. They are seeking to
determine if any officials then passed the name along to journalists
and if officials were truthful in testifying about whether they had
read the memo, the people who have been briefed said, asking not to
be named because the special prosecutor heading the investigation had
requested that no one discuss the case.
The memorandum was sent to Colin L. Powell, then the secretary of
state, just before or as he traveled with President Bush and other
senior officials to Africa starting on July 7, 2003, when the White
House was scrambling to defend itself from a blast of criticism a few
days earlier from the former diplomat, Joseph C. Wilson IV, current
and former government officials said.
Mr. Powell was seen walking around Air Force One during the trip with
the memorandum in hand, said a person involved in the case who also
requested anonymity because of the prosecutor's admonitions about
talking about the investigation.
Investigators are also trying to determine whether the gist of the
information in the document, including the name of the C.I.A. officer,
Valerie Wilson, Mr. Wilson's wife, had been provided to the White
House even earlier, said another person who has been involved in the
case. Investigators have been looking at whether the State Department
provided the information to the White House before July 6, 2003, when
Mr. Wilson publicly criticized the way the administration used
intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, the person said.
The prosecutors have shown the memorandum to witnesses at the
grand jury investigating how the C.I.A. officer's name was disclosed
to journalists, blowing her cover as a covert operative and possibly
violating federal law, people briefed on the case said. The
prosecutors appear to be investigating how widely the document
circulated within the administration, and whether it might have been
the original source of information for whoever provided the identity
of Ms. Wilson to Robert D. Novak, the syndicated columnist who first
disclosed it in print.
On Thursday, a person who has been officially briefed on the matter
said that Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser, had spoken about
Ms. Wilson with Mr. Novak before Mr. Novak published a column on July
14, 2003, identifying the C.I.A. officer by her maiden name, Valerie
Plame. Mr. Rove, the person said, told Mr. Novak he had heard much the
same information, making him one of two sources Mr. Novak cited for
his information.
But the person said
*Mr. Rove first heard from Mr. Novak*
the name of Mr. Wilson's wife and her
precise role in the C.I.A.'s decision to
send her husband to Africa to investigate
a report, later discredited, that Saddam
Hussein was trying to acquire nuclear
material there.
It is not clear who Mr. Novak's original
source was, or whether Mr. Novak has
revealed the source's identity to the grand
jury.
Mr. Rove also held a conversation about Mr. Wilson's mission to Africa
with Matthew Cooper, a reporter for Time magazine, on July 11, 2003,
two days after he discussed the case with Mr. Novak. In an e-mail
message to his bureau chief provided to the grand jury by Time Inc.,
Mr. Cooper said Mr. Rove had alluded to Mr. Wilson's wife as a C.I.A.
employee, though, in Mr. Cooper's account, Mr. Rove did not use her
name or mention her status as a covert operative.
After his conversation with Mr. Cooper, The Associated Press reported
Friday, Mr. Rove sent an e-mail message to Stephen J. Hadley, then the
deputy national security adviser, saying he "didn't take the bait"
when Mr. Cooper suggested that Mr. Wilson's criticisms had been
damaging to the administration.
Mr. Rove told the grand jury in the case that the e-mail message was
consistent with his assertion that he had not intended to divulge Ms.
Wilson's identity but instead intended to rebut Mr. Wilson's
criticisms of the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq, The
A.P. reported, citing legal professionals familiar with Mr. Rove's
testimony. Dozens of White House and administration officials have
testified to the grand jury, and several officials have been called
back for further questioning.
The special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has sought to determine
how much Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman at the time of the
leak, knew about the memorandum. Lawyers involved in the case said Mr.
Fitzgerald asked questions about Mr. Fleischer's role. Mr. Fleischer
was with Mr. Bush and much of the senior White House staff in Africa
when Mr. Powell, who was also with them, received the memorandum. A
spokeswoman for Mr. Powell said he was out of the country and could
not comment on the document. Mr. Fleischer said in an e-mail message
this week that he would not comment on the case.
Mr. Fitzgerald has also looked into any role that I. Lewis Libby, Vice
President ***** Cheney's chief of staff, may have played. Lawyers in
the case have said their clients have been asked about Mr. Libby's
conversations in the days after Mr. Wilson's article - in part based
on Mr. Libby's hand-written notes, which he turned over to the
prosecutor.
In addition, several journalists have been asked about their
conversations with Mr. Libby. At least one, Tim Russert of NBC News,
has suggested that prosecutors wanted to know whether he had told Mr.
Libby of Ms. Wilson's identity. After Mr. Russert met with Mr.
Fitzgerald, NBC said that he did not provide the information to Mr.
Libby.
The existence of the State Department memorandum has been previously
reported by news organizations including The Wall Street Journal,
Newsweek and The Daily News. But new details of how it came about and
how it circulated within the administration could offer clues into who
knew what and when.
The memorandum was dated June 10, 2003, nearly four weeks before Mr.
Wilson wrote an Op-Ed article for The New York Times in which he
recounted his mission and accused the administration of twisting
intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq. The memorandum was
written for Marc Grossman, then the under secretary of state for
political affairs, and it referred explicitly to Valerie Wilson as Mr.
Wilson's wife, according to a government official who reread the
document on Friday.
When Mr. Wilson's Op-Ed article appeared on July 6, 2003, a Sunday,
Richard L. Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, called Carl W.
Ford Jr., the assistant secretary for intelligence and research, at
home, a former State Department official said. Mr. Armitage asked Mr.
Ford to send a copy of the memorandum to Mr. Powell, who was preparing
to leave for Africa with Mr. Bush, the former official said. Mr. Ford
sent it to the White House for transmission to Mr. Powell.
It is not clear who asked for the memorandum, but in the weeks before
it was written, there were several accounts in newspapers about an
unnamed former diplomat's trip to Africa seeking intelligence about
Iraq's nuclear program. On May 6, 2003, Nicholas D. Kristof, a
columnist for The Times, wrote of a "former U.S. ambassador to Africa"
who had reported to the C.I.A. and the State Department that reports
of Iraq seeking to acquire uranium in Niger were "unequivocally
wrong."
The memorandum was prepared at the State Department, relying on notes
by an analyst who was involved in meetings in early 2002 to discuss
whether to send someone to Africa to investigate allegations that Iraq
was pursuing uranium purchases. The C.I.A. was asked by Mr. Cheney's
office and the State and Defense Departments to look into the reports.
According to a July 9, 2004, Senate Intelligence Committee report, the
notes described a Feb. 19, 2002, meeting at C.I.A. headquarters on
whether Mr. Wilson should go to Niger.
The notes, which did not identify Ms. Wilson or her husband by name,
said the meeting was "apparently convened by" the wife of a former
ambassador "who had the idea to dispatch" him to Niger because of his
contacts in the region. Mr. Wilson had been ambassador to Gabon.
The Intelligence Committee report said the former ambassador's wife
had a different account of her role, saying she introduced him and
left after about three minutes.
The information in the State Department memorandum generally tracked
the information Mr. Novak laid out for Mr. Rove in their conversation,
according to the account of their exchange provided by the person
briefed on what Mr. Rove has told investigators.
But it appears to differ in at least one way, raising questions about
whether it was the original source of the material that ultimately
made its way to Mr. Novak. In his July 14, 2003, column, Mr. Novak
referred to Ms. Wilson as Valerie Plame. The State Department
memorandum referred to her as Valerie Wilson, according to the
government official who reread it on Friday.
David E. Sanger and Scott Shane contributed reporting for this
article.
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16memo.html?ei=5094&en=6d88216f8e1a7671&hp=&ex=1121572800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16memo.html
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16 Jul 2005 10:02:01 AM |
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"Tuttle's Almanac" <Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote in message
news:11dh4c9jv5t6j31@corp.supernews.com...
CNN forgets Rove falsehood on its own broadcasts
http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200507150006
On the July 15 edition of CNN Live Today, host Daryn Kagan
described recent news articles reporting that White House
senior adviser Karl Rove had learned the name of CIA operative
Valerie Plame before leaking her identity to a reporter,
but left viewers in the dark that this revelation directly
contradicts Rove's August 31, 2004, statement on her own
cable news channel that "I didn't know her name.
I didn't leak her name."
On the same day's edition of CNN's Live From ..., White House
correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported that, according to a
"lawyer familiar with the grand jury investigation," Rove learned
Plame's name prior to his conversation with Time reporter
Matthew Cooper and that Rove did not reveal her name "because
he was trying to be discreet." Like Kagan, Malveaux failed to
mention Rove's prior claim on CNN that he "didn't know her name."
Snip.....
Kakan? Isn't she the shill that dates Rush Limbaugh? Do you expect anything
objective from her? CNN is trying to be FOX lite. CNN is a withered shell
of a formerly great news organization under Ted Turner. These days if you
want that crap you might as well watch the masters of it, FNN. CNN has
little to offer except more of the echo chamber.
Bob
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| User: "Tempest" |
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16 Jul 2005 12:14:43 PM |
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Bob Eldred wrote:
"Tuttle's Almanac" <Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote in message
news:11dh4c9jv5t6j31@corp.supernews.com...
CNN forgets Rove falsehood on its own broadcasts
http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200507150006
On the July 15 edition of CNN Live Today, host Daryn Kagan
described recent news articles reporting that White House
senior adviser Karl Rove had learned the name of CIA operative
Valerie Plame before leaking her identity to a reporter,
but left viewers in the dark that this revelation directly
contradicts Rove's August 31, 2004, statement on her own
cable news channel that "I didn't know her name.
I didn't leak her name."
On the same day's edition of CNN's Live From ..., White House
correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported that, according to a
"lawyer familiar with the grand jury investigation," Rove learned
Plame's name prior to his conversation with Time reporter
Matthew Cooper and that Rove did not reveal her name "because
he was trying to be discreet." Like Kagan, Malveaux failed to
mention Rove's prior claim on CNN that he "didn't know her name."
Snip.....
Kakan? Isn't she the shill that dates Rush Limbaugh? Do you expect anything
objective from her? CNN is trying to be FOX lite. CNN is a withered shell
of a formerly great news organization under Ted Turner. These days if you
want that crap you might as well watch the masters of it, FNN. CNN has
little to offer except more of the echo chamber.
Ted Turner had nothing but harsh words for his once respected CNN during
CNN's anniversary celebration this year.
--
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony, 1896
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