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Plame/Novak: Rove Goes on Record

What did Karl say, and when did he say it? 

The forehead that launched
a thousand ships

Murray Waas is reporting at the American Prospect website that Karl Rove was questioned last fall by the FBI in its investigation of the leak of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. (The backstory, if you aren't already familiar with it, is partly sketched in my Monday post.)

According to Waas, Rove's line was that he had indeed spread the story about Plame--but only after it appeared in Bob Novak's infamous dispatch, which of course was fed to Novak by some underling of Rove or Dick Cheney.

Don't go thinking that Rove will be deposed. Like Cheney, he is there for the long haul. But Waas's report does threaten to put Rove in breach of one of his own cardinal rules--never become an issue in your candidate's campaign. For that reason, Kerry et al. ought to make it their business to point fingers at Rove wherever possible. The better he's known, the less he and his boss will be liked.  

Posted by Steve Perry at March 9, 2004 7:30 PM

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