Cooper Verifies Rove Identified Plame

Matt Cooper wrote this in the coming issue of TIME Magazine, and proved Rove and Bush are BOTH OUTRIGHT LIARS As for Wilson's wife, I told the grand jury I was certain that Rove never used her name and that, indeed, I did not learn her name until the following week, when I either saw it in Robert Novak's column or Googled her, I can't recall which. Rove did, however, clearly indicate that she worked at the "agency"--by that, I told the grand jury, I inferred that he obviously meant the CIA and not, say, the Environmental Protection Agency. Rove added that she worked on "WMD" (the abbreviation for weapons of mass destruction) issues and that she was responsible for sending Wilson. This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status. I told the grand jury something else about my conversation with Rove. Although it's not reflected in my notes or subsequent e-mails, I have a distinct memory of Rove ending the call by saying, "I've already said too much." This could have meant he was worried about being indiscreet, or it could have meant he was late for a meeting or something else. I don't know, but that sign-off has been in my memory for two years. [SNIP] So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the "agency" on "WMD"? Yes. When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know. Is any of this a crime? Beats me. At this point, I'm as curious as anyone else to see what Patrick Fitzgerald has. Well none of us know what Fitzgerald has in mind, but I put this forth. The Non-Disclosure Agreement signed by Rove describes unauthorized disclosure as: Before … confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, … confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure. Well my friends, he most certainly DID confirm Plame's identity as you can see for yourself in what was written by Cooper. This kind of gives a broadside slam to the current meme touted by King George's spin machine, that it was a reporter who told him (Rove) about Plame. Now it is very possible that some other reporter (Miller?) told this to Rove, but he still confirmed not only her identity, but what she was working on (WMD). There is more available from this report from Reuters.