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  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Three Questions for Karl Rove’s Lawyer
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I have a call in to Bob Luskin, Karl Rove’s lawyer, but I’m not holding my breath for a call back. He knows I know too much, since I broke the story last week that his client is one of the secret sources Matt Cooper has been protecting for the last two years. I have three questions for Luskin:
    Q: You’ve said Rove is not a target of the investigation. Is he a subject of the investigation?
    Q: Since Time delivered its e-mails to the prosecutor on Friday, have you asked the prosecutor (…)

  • The Internet vs. Karl Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Things heated up over the Independence Day weekend regarding Karl Rove’s involvement with the leaking of a secret CIA agent’s identity. The problem is that the mainstream media is NOT touching the Rove angle with a proverbial 10 foot poll. Although there is clearly something going on here, the big shots of big media are treating Rove like he’s the most feared man in the country. It appears that the only way this story is going to stay alive is if the blogosphere keeps it alive.
    For weeks (…)

  • White House Scrambles to Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush Administration is scrambling behind the scenes to stop a criminal indictment against Presidential advisor Karl Rove for disclosing classified information to reporters in an attempt to discredit a White House critic.
    Time Magazine emails turned over to a grand jury show Rove leaked CIA Operative Valerie Plame’s name to journalists after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, went public with claims the Bush Administration knowing used false information to justify the invasion of (…)

  • Karl Rove Bio - Conservative or Crook?
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s hard to imagine how Karl Rove’s appearance could fit his role any more perfectly than it does.
    Portly, balding, malicious, simpering, he looks like a cross between Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper and the Third Reich’s Heinrich Himmler. And he acts like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and Henry Kissinger. Whom he also looks like. And not in a good way.
    Oh yeah, he’s a man who compromised national security, putting lives of American agents in danger. Wait, I forgot a word there. What (…)

  • Dear NYT, Get it Straight. Miller and Cooper are Protecting a Possible Felon.
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
    I sent the following letter to a reporter at The New York Times after reading: . The Times changed the heading of the article after I wrote the letter.
    A BuzzFlash Reader
    * * *
    RE: "Spy at Center of Leak Case Still in Shadow" [July 5]
    Dear Scott Shane,
    You write: "the investigation into the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer’s name has unfolded clamorously in the nation’s capital, with partisan brawling on talk shows..."
    The only ones "brawling" are (…)

  • Save the First Amendment — from Karl Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A man who taught with Rove, and considers him a friend, writes that in the Valerie Plame case, Rove is using journalists, and the First Amendment, "to operate without constraint, or to camouflage breaking the law." That’s why neither reporters Cooper and Miller, nor their publications, should protect Rove (or anyone else) "through an undiscerning, blanket use of the First Amendment that weakens its protections by its gross misuse."
    By Bill Israel
    (July 05, 2005) — In 99.9 percent of (…)

  • MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET
    NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O’Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name—and it is, according to him, top White House (…)

  • Italian anger over U.S. : 13 CIA workers ordered arrested
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Italian anger over U.S. terror tactics deepens rift
    By Stephen Grey and Don Van Natta Jr. The New York Times
    MILAN The extraordinary decision by an Italian judge to order the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect here dramatizes a growing rift between American counterterrorism officials and their counterparts in Europe. European counterterrorism officials have pursued a policy of building criminal cases against terrorism suspects through (…)

  • THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
    14 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up BY CARL BERNSTEIN
    In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
    Alsop is one of more than (…)

  • Web Of Cold-Blooded Lies
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Web Of Cold-Blooded Lies Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun June 12, 2005 PARIS - In July 2002, the head of MI-6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet on U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
    Sir Richard Dearlove ("M" to James Bond fans) reported that U.S. President George Bush had decided to invade oil-rich Iraq in March 2003, in a war "to be justified by the conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence and facts are being (…)