It doesn’t look good for Karl Rove
As the scandal over the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity has continued to unfold, there is a renewed focus on Karl Rove — the White House deputy chief of staff whom President Bush calls his political “architect.”
Newsweek has reported that Matt Cooper, in an e-mail to his bureau chief at Time magazine, wrote that he had spoken “to Rove on double super-secret background for about two min[ute]s before he went on vacation …” In that conversation, Rove gave Cooper “big warning” that Time should not “get too far out on Wilson.”
Rove was referring, of course, to former Ambassador Joe Wilson’s acknowledgment of his trip to Africa, where he discovered that Niger had not, in fact, provided uranium to Iraq that might be part of a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program.
CNN.com – It doesn’t look good for Karl Rove – Jul 15, 2005