Rove PERSONALLY denies being the source of the leak

[tinnypriv]

Check out the video on the BBC News website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk (launch the console and select the story)

1:43 into the video, a reporter is outside Rove's house:

REPORTER: Did you have any knowledge or did you leak the name of the CIA agent to the press?

ROVE: No.

(Rove then gets into his car and drives off)

....

[eileen_d]

1. but after he got in the car

he said "kidding!" (as in "No kidding!"... ugh. I explained it so it's no longer funny. I need therapy.)

[ShaneGR]

2. BUT, he doesn't say, "And I know no one else did either!"

Seems like an obvious response if you know the story is false.

[MissB]

3. Or it was "no"

As in "no, I'm not answering questions".

[tinnypriv]

5. Doesn't sound like it

Watch the video. He says it quite loud as well.

[The Magistrate]

8. Even Better, Sir

Loud denial from reptiles of this stripe may be treated as open confession.

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[tinnypriv]

12. "Nixon Pledges No Whitewash On Watergate"

May, 1973. :D

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[Cha]

15. eerily similiar, no?

[MissB]

17. I saw the one on ABC news

Is that the video clip you are talking about? Rove says "no" as he is getting into the silver car.

I interpreted it as "No, I'm not answering questions". Seriously.

[SharonAnn]

4. Like we'd believe him? He's hardly an "unimpeachable" source.

It's got his "Dirty Tricks" and "Revenge" fingerprints all over it.

[hlthe2b]

6. In their mind....

it is not a lie unless under oath... so if you REALLY believe Rove had no knowledge or involvement, well, I don't!

[IMayBeWrongBut]

7. Did he say something like

"I did not have a leaky relationship with that man!" :)

[UTUSN]

9. Does He Also Turd Shrub's Blossem? n/t

[UTUSN]

10. Does He Also Turd Shrub's Blossem? n/t

[WilliamPitt]

11. If Karl Rove said the sky was up

I'd look out the window to be sure.

[IMayBeWrongBut]

13. This story is making me reconsider my

extreme pesimism about Bush* always getting away with things. I can't remember the last story that revolved around a reporter daring to ask someone like Karl Rove a question in the press anywhere(I will be more pleased when it's in a US paper)...

[E_Zapata]

14. Follow up q: Will you answer this question under oath?

And we would get the same answer: NO.

[DrBB]

16. He might as well deny it whether he did it or not

...because either the story stalls, in which case it won't matter, or he gets caught, in which case one baldfaced denial more or less won't make any difference--his life will be over, politically speaking. And the Flying Chimp along with him.

[leesa]

18. I think everyone hates Rove and would be happy to see him go down

[bluestateguy]

19. OK, that should be the end of it

Rove has said he didn't do it, so that should end all the speculation. NO investigation will be necessary now.

[opihimoimoi]

20. LeakyGate time. Nixon said "I;m not a Crook"

Rove: In his denial, he paints himself with those prison stripes, black and white.