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October 20, 2005

Rove throws Libby under the bus

They're starting to cannibalize each other:

White House adviser Karl Rove told the grand jury in the CIA leak case that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, may have told him that CIA operative Valerie Plame worked for the intelligence agency before her identity was revealed, a source familiar with Rove's account said yesterday.

In a talk that took place in the days before Plame's CIA employment was revealed in 2003, Rove and Libby discussed conversations they had had with reporters in which Plame and her marriage to Iraq war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV were raised, the source said. Rove told the grand jury the talk was confined to information the two men heard from reporters, the source said.

The reporters in question are Judith Miller and Tim Russert..both of whom said separately that they didn't reveal the name to Libby and Rove.

The unraveling of the once disciplined, well-oiled Bush machine is causing consternation among the conservative media as well. Their latest meme is the criminalization of conservatives. As if it's the fault of liberals that so many conservatives are under indictment for various scandals.

If you don't want your people to be considered corrupt...stop associating yourself with corrupt people. It's common knowledge that Karl Rove is a mealy mouthed, slimy, no good jerk who will do absolutely anything to win. He did it in Texas. He has a history of being a really bad guy. Stop associating with him. Stop giving him power. It's not that tough to figure out.

Posted by Carla at October 20, 2005 07:29 AM