Rove: no inhaling! None!
The disclosure raised new questions about Rove and the precise role of the White House in the apparent national security breach...
Karl Rove, one of President Bush's closest advisers, spoke with a Time magazine reporter days before the name of a CIA operative surfaced in the media, but did not leak the confidential information, a lawyer for Rove said Saturday in a new admission in the case.
Rove spoke to Time reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003, during the week before published reports revealed the identity of operative Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush administration critic and former U.S. envoy Joseph Wilson.
Some suspect that the White House leaked her name in retaliation for a July 6, 2003, article in the New York Times written by Wilson accusing the administration of using bogus intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
Rove spoke to Time reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003, during the week before published reports revealed the identity of operative Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush administration critic and former U.S. envoy Joseph Wilson.
Some suspect that the White House leaked her name in retaliation for a July 6, 2003, article in the New York Times written by Wilson accusing the administration of using bogus intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
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