FROG MARCH?….David Corn:
Tonight I received this as-solid-as-it-gets tip: on Sunday Newsweek is posting a story that nails [Karl] Rove. The newsmagazine has obtained documentary evidence that Rove was indeed a key source for Time magazine’s Matt Cooper and that Rove ? prior to the publication of the Bob Novak column that first publicly disclosed Valerie Wilson/Plame as a CIA official ? told Cooper that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife apparently worked at the CIA and was involved in Joseph Wilson’s now-controversial trip to Niger.
….This new evidence could place Rove in serious political, if not legal, jeopardy (or, at least it should). If what I am told is true, this is proof that the Bush White House was using any information it could gather on Joseph Wilson ? even classified information related to national security ? to pursue a vendetta against Wilson, a White House critic. Even if it turns out Rove did not break the law regarding the naming of intelligence officials, this new disclosure could prove Rove guilty of leaking a national security secret to a reporter for political ends. What would George W. Bush do about that?
Newsweek sure does have lousy newsroom security, doesn’t it?
