By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA....http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek
TOKYO ROVE?
Well...there it is, in black and white, in a mainstream media venue, and if it's not a trap like the documents used to smear Dan Rather and CBS might have been, it looks like one can truthfully say that the Bush white house is completely political. Let me put it as clearly as possible: Karl Rove exposed an undercover CIA agent in order to "payback" a critic of the administration. As best as I can tell, if convicted, the minumum sentence is 10 years. Putting aside for the moment the fact that the critic was a man and the agent they exposed was his wife, which is just plain dishonorable from my perhaps quaint point-of-view, this act is by definition treason.
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From today's DAILY MAIL...
"Britain And America are secretly preparing to withdraw most of their troops from Iraq - despite warnings of the grave consequences for the region, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
A secret paper written by Defence Secretary John Reid for Tony Blair reveals that many of the 8,500 British troops in Iraq are set to be brought home within three months, with most of the rest returning six months later.
The leaked document, marked Secret: UK Eyes Only, appears to fly in the face of Mr Blair and President Bush's pledges that Allied forces will not quit until Iraq's own forces are strong enough to take control of security"...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=355291&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5
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Newsweek
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA....http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek
TOKYO ROVE?
Well...there it is, in black and white, in a mainstream media venue, and if it's not a trap like the documents used to smear Dan Rather and CBS might have been, it looks like one can truthfully say that the Bush white house is completely political. Let me put it as clearly as possible: Karl Rove exposed an undercover CIA agent in order to "payback" a critic of the administration. As best as I can tell, if convicted, the minumum sentence is 10 years. Putting aside for the moment the fact that the critic was a man and the agent they exposed was his wife, which is just plain dishonorable from my perhaps quaint point-of-view, this act is by definition treason.
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From today's DAILY MAIL...
"Britain And America are secretly preparing to withdraw most of their troops from Iraq - despite warnings of the grave consequences for the region, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
A secret paper written by Defence Secretary John Reid for Tony Blair reveals that many of the 8,500 British troops in Iraq are set to be brought home within three months, with most of the rest returning six months later.
The leaked document, marked Secret: UK Eyes Only, appears to fly in the face of Mr Blair and President Bush's pledges that Allied forces will not quit until Iraq's own forces are strong enough to take control of security"...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=355291&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5
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