Rove: Not Entirely Forgotten

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/07/21/BL2005072101004.html?referrer=email
Rove: Not Entirely Forgotten

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, July 21, 2005; 12:15 PM

Wondering if -- with all the excitement over President Bush's brilliantly scripted Supreme Court nomination -- the press was going to forget about Karl Rove and the White House's role in the leak of a CIA agent's identity?

No worries.



Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei roar into the lead spot of The Washington Post's front page this morning with this development: "A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked '(S)' for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials. . . .


"The memo may be important to answering three central questions in the Plame case: Who in the Bush administration knew about Plame's CIA role? Did they know the agency was trying to protect her identity? And, who leaked it to the media?........



The Meaning of the Play

The Post's placement of this story was not lost on media observers.

Tim Grieve writes in Salon that "maybe the Post's editors really think this morning's Plame piece is worthy of front-page attention. But maybe this is what the White House can expect from some journalists who have finally grown tired of getting jerked around."

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