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July 17, 2005
Rove's Leaks Were Designed to Protect Rationale For Iraq War
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the proprietor of Informed Comment, an authoritative blog on Iraq and the Middle East, reminds his readers why Karl Rove told Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper that Valerie Plame, the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV, was a CIA agent working on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) issues.
Bottom line: It was about keeping one of the rationales for invading Iraq intact. Namely that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had WMDs and sought to buy uranium yellowcake in Niger. This article discredited that claim.
See Rove:It is all going to be Declassified."
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 17, 2005 04:42 PM
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