Rove E-Mailed Security Official
The Karl Rove method of "outing" a CIA employee: Offhandedly refer to her as Joe Wilson's wife in a phone conversation with Matt Cooper, then notify a National Security Advisor about the conversation !
Yeah, Daniel Ellsberg would do it that way too.
WASHINGTON (AP) - After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview.
The July 11, 2003, e-mail between Rove and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley is the first showing an intelligence official knew Rove had talked to Matthew Cooper just days before the Time magazine reporter wrote an article identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA officer.
Rove wrote he "didn't take the bait" on Cooper's questions about fallout to the administration from Joe Wilson's op-ed piece of July 6, 2003.
Joe Wilson's wife was mentioned in a phone call between Bob Novak and Rove on July 8, 2003.
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman commenting on Bob Novak's phone call to Rove: "What it says is, Karl Rove wasn't the leaker, he was actually the recipient of the information not the provider."
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