Rove Blew CIA Agent’s Cover

July 2nd, 2005 at 22:55 Björn Hallberg

From the Huffington Post via Agonist.

I revealed in yesterday’s taping of the McLaughlin Group that Time magazine’s emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper’s source. I have known this for months but didn’t want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury.

McLaughlin is seen in some markets on Friday night, so some websites have picked it up, including Drudge, but I don’t expect it to have much impact because McLaughlin is not considered a news show and it will be pre-empted in the big markets on Sunday because of tennis.

Since I revealed the big scoop, I have had it reconfirmed by yet another highly authoritative source. Too many people know this. It should break wide open this week. I know Newsweek is working on an ‘It’s Rove!’ story and will probably break it tomorrow.

So, Karl Rove is the confidential source who outed Valerie Plame to reporters as a CIA operative. It has been suspected from the very beginning but there was never any evidence to support it. Joseph C. Wilson, of course named Rove as the insider back in 2003.

See also, the Editor & Publisher (”MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case “).

If substantiated, “Bush’s Brain” could be looking at charges of treason. Whoever leaked the identity of Plame not only compromised the identity of a deep-cover agent, who just happened to be the wife of Joseph Wilson, ending her career, but reportedly cost as many as 90 contacts and informants their lives. A social network built over a career spanning some 20 years. Ironically, Plame’s field of expertise was the proliferation of “weapons of mass destruction” …

Also reporting on this: Another Day in the Empire (”Karl Rove Plame Leak Source: Yawn”).

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