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July 15, 2005
Daniel Schorr: Rove Leak Is Just Part Of Larger Scandal
Veteran journalist Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst at National Public Radio and a Christian Science Monitor columnist, said in his July 15, 2005 column: "Let me remind you that the underlying issue in the Karl Rove controversy is not a leak, but a war and how America was misled into that war."
I agree. The reason the White House deliberately exposed Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush Administration critic Joseph C. Wilson IV, as a CIA operative, not the leak and journalists right to protect sources, is the pivotal issue.
Ms. Plame was considered "fair game" by Bush Administration operatives who wanted to punish Mr. Wilson for disputing in a July 6, 2003 article in The New York Times the Administration's false claim that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had sought to buy uranium yellowcake in Niger, in an attempt to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction program.
See "Rove leak is just part of larger scandal" for more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 15, 2005 08:30 PM
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