Cooper Details Rove Conversations About Plame

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

WASHINGTON — Journalist Matt Cooper (search) on Wednesday confirmed to a grand jury that White House aide Karl Rove (search) was his source for a story about a CIA operative that has investigators deciding whether any laws were broken by the leak of the agent's identity.

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Key Quotes:

"Cooper confirmed that his source on the leak was Deputy Chief of Staff Rove, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers and the man credited with Bush's four consecutive campaign victories."

"In September and October 2003, McClellan said he had spoken to Rove about the Plame matter and that Rove wasn't involved in the leak."

"Rove's conversation with Cooper took place five days after Plame's husband suggested in a New York Times op-ed piece that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

"Eight days after the op-ed piece, Plame's name and her connection to the CIA first appeared in a newspaper column by Robert Novak"

Clearly Rove is toast. He exposed Plame to punish WIison. Bush promised to fire anyone who leaked Plame's name. So now Bush must fulfill his promise.