Novak again asserted that Armitage's role in leak case exonerates Rove |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 8:25 pm |
| Tags: robert novak, cia leak investigation, national security foreign policy, war in iraq |
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In an August 14 column discussing Karl Rove's announcement that he is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff, syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak asserted that "[a]lthough [special counsel Patrick] Fitzgerald knew from the start that not Rove but the politically nondescript Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was my primary source in identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA employee, the prosecutor came close to indicting Rove for perjury or obstruction of justice." But as Media Matters for America has noted, while Armitage was Novak's primary source for Plame's identity, Rove confirmed the information Armitage divulged, as Novak himself has admitted. He did not mention that fact in the August 14 column. Novak wrote in his column: Rove had always been a happy warrior, self-confident in building a broad-based Republican majority. But his political joy was diminished by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of him in [ Full article ] |
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