All Headline News - Karl Rove Revealed as Source in Time Magazine, CIA Case - July 10, 2005
Karl Rove Revealed as Source in Time Magazine, CIA Case
July 10, 2005 10:21 p.m. EST
Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON (AHN) - One of the sources that leaked the identity of a CIA operative to Time Magazine reporters, is Top White House advisor, Karl Rove, according to Newsweek Magazine.
Newsweek said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove talked to Time magazine about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Two journalists faced prison for failing to reveal their sources to a federal prosecutor investigating the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA officer.
It is illegal to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover officer, and the prosecutor has been searching for the source of the leak who revealed Ms Plame's identity, which was first reported by Robert Novak, a columnist.
Last week Judith Miller of the New York Times was jailed after she refused to testify before a grand jury about her source. Matt Cooper, of Time magazine, had expected to keep his source a secret as well, but he said he received permission from his source to testify in court.
Rove is adamant that he did not leak Plame's name, and e-mail accounts included in the Newsweek story show that while he talked to Cooper about Plame there was no mention of her name.
“Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative,” according to Newsweek
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