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"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It was a reporter named Novack(?) from (I think) the Washington Post.
> There was another reporter involved too, but my recollection is that she
> did not print her story, she did write a story that was not published, and
> referenced Novack as her source.
>
> Essentially, Novack went to Rove's office with a story that his
> information was that the White House had sent Wilson to check out the nuke
> story swirling around Niger and Iraq. Rove made a flip remark that it
> wasn't the White House that had dispatched Wilson to Niger. The reporter
> asked, well, who did? To which Rove made another flip remark, maybe his
> wife sent him.
>
> Everybody on The Hill knows that Wilson's wife is a desk jocky over at
> CIA, what some apparently did not know is that she is undercover because
> she hadn't been undercover for some thing on the order of 5 years.
> Assuming that she had not been undercover for 5 years, she is not an
> operative that needs to be protected from being outed by way of a flip
> remark.
>
> PS
> I may have mis-spoke on the names of the players and the newspapers they
> worked for, but the jist of the explanation is accurate.[/color]


Thank you for that comprehensive and useful answer!