Lawrence O’Donnell, who broke the news that Karl Rove was at least one source of the Valerie Plame leak, has posted an update on The Huffington Post, defending his allegations from comments by Rove’s attorney.
On Friday, I broke the story that the e-mails that Time turned over to the prosecutor that day reveal that Karl Rove is the source Matt Cooper is protecting. That provoked Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, to interrupt his holiday weekend to do a little defense work with Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. On Saturday, Luskin decided to reveal that Rove did have at least one conversation with Cooper, but Luskin told the Times he would not “characterize the substance of the conversation.”
Luskin claimed that the prosecutor “asked us not to talk about what Karl has had to say.” This is highly unlikely. Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room. Rove can tell us word-for-word what he said to the grand jury and would if he thought it would help him. And notice that Luskin just did reveal part of Rove’s grand jury testimony, the fact that he had a conversation with Cooper. Rove would not let me get one day of traction on this story if he could stop me. If what I have reported is not true, if Karl Rove is not Matt Cooper’s source, Rove could prove that instantly by telling us what he told the grand jury. Nothing prevents him from doing that, except a good lawyer who is trying to keep him out of jail.
It will be interesting to see if Rove can spin himself out of prison.
Very boring subject here Goldy….
Chuck @1,
Well then, what the fuck are doing sitting inside reading it on such a beautiful day like today? Personally, I’m about to go out and enjoy the sunshine with my daughter and my puppy, rather than sitting inside blogging for unappreciative righties.
Why don’t you go take your monkey for a walk?
This being a holiday weekend, Goldy, why don’t you switch to decaf until next week?
Actually I am waiting for my girlfreind to get dressed so I can go out.
Story of the year, Goldy. I am wetting myself inanticipation of the impeachment proceedings.
Sorry Chuck and Demog, this story, like the Downing Street minutes, ain’t going away until these Neo_cons are in jail.
I’m with you, Donna. This is but just one more hole in the SS NeoCON. The rats are all going down with the sinking ship.
HaHaHa…Yet another fine example of the “deep” thinking of DonnaGeddon…
A dried up analyst on the lowest rated cable network and a blog “breaks” this “big story” One part of which, hasn’t seemed to materialize..Where’s the big Newsweek story he said was out today???????
Along with DSM and every other delussional, paranoid and simply mindless propangda from a party and individuals with no vision, no plan, no experience and a tiny percentage of Americans who support them. The only logical, lucid thought Donna has ever had is that impeachment will be the only way his political persuasion will EVER gain any standing in this country. People with organic brain syndromes and mental disorders such as Donna are NOTHING but entertainment and unfortunetly, a drain on goverment resources because they spend their lives blaming everyone except themselves for their failure to thrive. I for one am proud you think of me as a “neo-con” Because you sir are a certifiable nut!
Here is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit opinion from February 15, 2005 in the Valerie Plame investigation subpoena civil contempt case for Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper and Time, Inc.:
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov.....-3138a.pdf
Makes very interesting reading. Looking forward to a concise analysis by Goldy.
And here is a link to the story written by Joseph Wilson IV, whose “secret CIA operative” wife Valerie Plame sent him on the mission to Niger to investigate the uranium sale information involving Iraq:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm
My understanding is that: (1) Valerie Plame has been identified in her husband’s resume for years as a CIA Officer/Analyst and (2) Valerie Plame was listed as a CIA Analyst in “Who’s Who In America”.
If this is the case, then what crime has been committed by anyone?
Donna @ 5 (mid 90s version)
“Story of the year, Richard Mellon. I am wetting myself inanticipation of the impeachment proceedings.
Sorry Chuck and Demog, this story, like the Whitewater scandal, ain’t going away until these Clitonistas are in jail.”
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Hey Chuckie is your girlfriend a black lab or a golden retriever?
Goldy, has it occurred to you that Rove must have a Get Out of Jail Free card in his pocket? (a/k/a presidential pardon)
On the other hand, if Rove did it and Bush pardons him, it will be interesting to watch the political firestorm. I can see the Repugs losing 80 seats in the House and 8 in the Senate.
Confirst @ 11 Funny how the repugs still think Clinton is President. Oh, but where it so!
Roger Rabbit@12
My girlfreind is 16 years younger than myself and fine looking Im sorry you are into the bestiality, it never turned me on at all.
Messing with your daughter’s friends, eh? You sick bastard.
Roger Rabbit@17
Nope my daughter is younger than that, By the way since you brought it up do you prefer black lab or a golden retriever? I was just curious as to how you hound fuckers think….
richard @ 9, 10
you leap to some serious conclusions. First, you claim Plame sent Wilson to Niger, which both deny, and is not corroborated by any facts. There is no record of that happening, despite various emails where Plame may have discussed the trip with her colleagues.
Secondly, you’ll have to produce the bio and who’s who entry that indicate her work as an analyst (which still wouldn’t represent what she was, which was an operative); as far as I know both merely refer to her by her maiden name, which reveals nothing.
Donna @ 15
I guess you missed the irony of your own comments when compared with what Republicans were saying in the 90s about Clinton.
Reply to 18
I prefer a fucking partner of the opposite sex with long pointy ears (altho lop ears are OK) and a cotton tail. As for whether I’d rather be chased by a black lab or golden retriever, I guess my answer is whichever is slowest! But then, I’m just a cute fluffy little bunny.
Can someone who has been following this a bit closer then I have tell me why Robert Novak is not under the same jail time threat as Cooper and Miller?
My understanding is that: (1) Valerie Plame has been identified in her husband’s resume for years as a CIA Officer/Analyst and (2) Valerie Plame was listed as a CIA Analyst in “Who’s Who In America”.
If this is the case, then what crime has been committed by anyone?
Ask the president. On October 6, 2003, President Bush said, “We’re talking about a criminal action,” when asked about the leak.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news.....006-4.html
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I’ve been wondering that myself. Probably because DOJ has been told to keep their hands off him because he knows enough to get Bush and Cheney brought up on impeachment charges.
Here is the Newsweek Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8445696/site/newsweek/
“Novak appears to have made some kind of arrangement with the special prosecutor, and other journalists who reported on the Plame story have talked to prosecutors with the permission of their sources. Cooper agreed to discuss his contact with Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide, after Libby gave him permission to do so. But Cooper drew the line when special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asked about other sources.
Initially, Fitzgerald’s focus was on Novak’s sourcing, since Novak was the first to out Plame. But according to Luskin, Rove’s lawyer, Rove spoke to Cooper three or four days before Novak’s column appeared. Luskin told NEWSWEEK that Rove “never knowingly disclosed classified information” and that “he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.” Luskin declined, however, to discuss any other details. He did say that Rove himself had testified before the grand jury “two or three times” and signed a waiver authorizing reporters to testify about their conversations with him. “He has answered every question that has been put to him about his conversations with Cooper and anybody else,” Luskin said. But one of the two lawyers representing a witness sympathetic to the White House told NEWSWEEK that there was growing “concern” in the White House that the prosecutor is interested in Rove. Fitzgerald declined to comment.”
Democrats: desperate acts by desperate people…..you keep losing seats in the house and senate…..keep up the cry baby whining and you will be as extinct as the dodo bird….
On second thought, PLEASE do keeping acting childish. A 67/33 seabte sounds good to me.
The very idea that a CIA Analyst would be listed in “Who’s Who In America” is beyond absurd. The CIA is just a little tiny bit secretive. Probably doesn’t advertise in “Who’s Who In America”.
And thank you, Duane, for demonstrating once again that you and those who think like you are so addicted to power that you are willing to tolerate anything just to desperately hang on.