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Re: Who blamed Rove for 'outing' the CIA agent?
What is most important is the fact the special; prosecutor did not thing
Rove did anything for which he could be prosecuted and that is what has all
the Dims and the Dan Rathers of the world in a hissy fit. ;)
mike hunt
"Ernie Sty" <fake_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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]
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> Thank you for that comprehensive and useful answer!
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