White House Scrambles to Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove — Page 2

seeing as how i'm the only one here who actually corresponded with ari on that last day (it's on the white house website), i can say that he said nothing about plame to me. but curiously, he didn't answer whether his marriage was a front to hide his ongoing affair with helen thomas.

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Arianna sifts through the opinions of some legal eagles and comes up with:

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According to the players, the key to whether this story has real legs -- and whether it will spell the end of Rove -- is determining intent. And a key to that is whether there was a meeting at the White House where Rove and Scooter Libby discussed what to do with the information they had gotten from the State Department about Valerie Plame being Joe Wilson’s wife, and her involvement in his being sent on the Niger/yellowcake mission. If it can be proven that such a meeting occurred, then Rove will be in deep trouble -- especially if it is established that Rove made three phone calls leaking the info about Plame and her CIA gig… one to Matt Cooper, one to Walter Pincus, and one to Robert Novak.

Other than intent, the other big legal question raised was: will Rove be able to get away with claiming that he did not know Plame was an undercover agent?

Rove-Plame: The Word from Aspen

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Updated On: 7/7/05 at 08:18 AM