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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
It's Karl Rove. Those White
House spinners who insist that Bush political guru Karl Rove had
nothing
to do with leaking the name
of Joseph Wilson's wife, then-CIA operative Valerie Plame, to Robert
Novak and other journalists ought to get themselves over to
the
Guardian's audio website.
Click on "White House blamed for
naming CIA agent," which will open up an audio file of
Guardian reporter Julian Borger explaining the leak story for
the benefit of British listeners. Among other things, Borger says:
The finger has so far
pointed at Karl Rove, who is the political maestro in the Bush
team, and there is no one closer in political terms to Bush than
Karl Rove. And several of the journalists are saying privately,
yes, it was Karl Rove who I talked to. Now the thing is that
the journalists are not going to name Karl Rove publicly, because
you don't name your sources, and to do would discredit them as
journalists. So the White House is safe for the time being. But
Karl Rove's name is very much out there.
So why doesn't Rove publicly
release journalists he may have spoken with from any promises of
confidentiality that were made? I think we know the answer to
that.
Thanks for Media Log reader J.D.
for the link.
Al Gore, cable mogul. It
looks like the former vice-president is about to take his first step
toward building a
liberal alternative to the
Fox-Rush axis. And thanks to Y.H. for that. (I see that Drudge has it, too.)
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
