Comments on: Libby, Plame, White House, Conspiracy… http://www.ruthgroup.org/2006/02/07/libby-plame-white-house-conspiracy/ Reclaiming American Democracy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Sims http://www.ruthgroup.org/2006/02/07/libby-plame-white-house-conspiracy/comment-page-1/#comment-913 Bill Sims Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:44:29 +0000 http://www.ruthgroup.org/2006/02/07/libby-plame-white-house-conspiracy/#comment-913 The Dickerson article is pretty much as described - well worth a read. It directly implicates Rove as the guy who outed Plame to Matt Cooper and also places him at the center of an orchestrated effort by numerous administration flunkies to discredit Wilson by focusing reporters on the issue of who "sent" him to Africa. Although Bush himself isn't DIRECTLY implicated, this all occurred during his overseas trip to Africa while reporters were actively hounding him with questions about cooked intelligence and Wilson's op-ed piece, which had just come out. Dickenson doesn't go there, but he does characterize Rove's actions as "protecting the boss". My own take is that the boss almost had to be well aware of what Rove was doing to defend him from the questions of reporters. The Dickerson article is pretty much as described – well worth a read. It directly implicates Rove as the guy who outed Plame to Matt Cooper and also places him at the center of an orchestrated effort by numerous administration flunkies to discredit Wilson by focusing reporters on the issue of who “sent” him to Africa.

Although Bush himself isn’t DIRECTLY implicated, this all occurred during his overseas trip to Africa while reporters were actively hounding him with questions about cooked intelligence and Wilson’s op-ed piece, which had just come out. Dickenson doesn’t go there, but he does characterize Rove’s actions as “protecting the boss”. My own take is that the boss almost had to be well aware of what Rove was doing to defend him from the questions of reporters.

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