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[tlc]

Damn..Lucky
those emails
went missing


Published on Thursday,
July 14, 2005
by the Long Island (NY) Newsday


'Fair Game' Question for Bush
Has the president asked Karl Rove, his indispensable aide, about his role in the Valerie Plame case?
by Harold Meyerson

Now Karl Rove has become "fair game."

That was the term the president's consigliere applied to Valerie Plame, according to Newsweek, in a conversation with MSNBC's Chris Matthews immediately after the publication of Robert D. Novak's column that identified Plame as a CIA operative.

And, of course, Plame was fair game: Her identity was a tool to discredit, however obliquely, the report from her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to purchase uranium from Niger was a bunch of hooey.

Rove's lawyer now admits that in attempting to warn Time's Matt Cooper off the Wilson story, Rove mentioned Wilson's wife, although not by name. Attention is now focused on whether this violated the law that forbids revealing the identity of our undercover intelligence agents. But it's also worth pondering the quintessential Rovishness of his conversation with Cooper.

Bringing up Plame, after all, did nothing to discredit Wilson's central findings. It was a distraction, an ad hominem attack. Wilson had undermined the administration's tenuous case for its war. To Rove, that made Plame fair game.

[hap0206]

there has been no agreement on Plame's status in 2003

in fact there is much disagreement

the only known facts are that she worked for the CIA and that her status was classified

and as usual

the libs/dems/lefties went charging over a cliff again

lol