From The Associated Press, 7/17/05:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation_1

Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -

Vice President ***** Cheney's top aide was among the sources for a Time
magazine reporter's story about the identity of a CIA officer, the
reporter said Sunday.

Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years
that vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby and presidential
adviser Karl Rove were not involved in the leaks of CIA officer
Valerie Plame's identity.

The White House refused last week to repeat those assertions when it
was revealed that Rove had told Time reporter Matt Cooper that the
wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson apparently works at
the CIA and that she had authorized his trip to Africa.

The CIA dispatched Wilson to check out a report that the government of
Niger had sold yellowcake uranium to Iraq for nuclear weapons.

Cooper said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he spoke to Libby after
first learning about Wilson's wife from Rove.

According to Cooper, Libby and Rove were among the government
officials referred to in Cooper's subsequent Time story that said
Wilson's wife was a CIA official and that she was involved in sending
her husband on a trip to Africa.

Cooper's article was headlined, "A War on Wilson?"

On Sunday, Cooper also said there may have been other sources for that
information.

He declined to elaborate.

In a first-person account in the latest issue of Time, Cooper said
Rove ended their telephone conversation with the words, "I've already
said too much."

Cooper speculated that Rove could have been worried about being
indiscreet or "it could have meant he was late for a meeting or
something else."

Republicans are responding to the revelations about Rove's role in the
leak by saying that the deputy White House chief of staff first heard
about Wilson's wife from a reporter.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, told
NBC that the disclosure about getting the information from a reporter
vindicates Rove and that Democrats who have called for Rove's
dismissal should apologize.

But John Podesta, former White House chief of staff in the Clinton
administration, said the White House's assurance in 2003 that Rove was
not involved in the leak "was a lie." Rove's credibility "is in
shreds," said Podesta, who appeared with Mehlmen.

Wilson was the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

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Sounds like the entire Bush Crime Family is swimming in a pool of
*****.

Harry