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Wilson is just another spit-spewing, hate-spewing liberal democrat....

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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/14/051014222030.g16i1gjw.html

Top Bush adviser Rove testifies again on CIA leak
Oct 14 6:22 PM US/Eastern
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President George W. Bush's top aide Karl Rove testified for a fourth 
time before a grand jury about the leaked identity of a CIA agent, which 
opponents call politically motivated. 

Rove entered a federal courtroom in Washington early Friday and left in 
the early afternoon after four hours with a prosecutor specially 
assigned to the case, Patrick Fitzgerald. 

 

Rove declined to speak to a crowd of reporters waiting outside. 

"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the 
investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning 
charges," Rove's attorney Robert Luskin said in a statement. 

"The special counsel has indicated that he does not anticipate the need 
for Mr. Rove's further cooperation," the statement said. 

Fitzgerald has tried for two years to find out who in the Bush 
administration leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, and the 
grand jury will decide whether a federal crime was committed. 

With suspense building as to whether Rove or other top officials will be 
indicted, a White House spokesman was asked if the case had become a 
distraction for the Bush administration. 

The president and his team of advisers were focused on priorities such 
as Iraq and the economy, spokesman Scott McClellan said at a news 
conference. 

"And while there are other things going on, the White House doesn't have 
time to let those things distract from the important work at hand," 
McClellan said. 

The case dates back to July 2003, when a conservative commentator with 
close ties to the Republican party, Robert Novak, published Plame's 
name. 


The CIA agent is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a former US ambassador who 
publicly questioned the Bush administration's justification for the war 
in Iraq. 

Under US law, knowingly revealing the identity of an undercover CIA 
agent is a federal crime, though it remains unclear if the Plame case 
fell into that category. 

The opposition Democrats called the leak an act of political revenge and 
demanded the White House reveal who had divulged the agent's name. 

Wilson promptly pointed to Rove as the likely source. 

"At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or 
not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in 
handcuffs," Wilson said. 

"And trust me when I use that name, I measure my words." 

Speculation is mounting over whether Rove, known as the mastermind 
behind Bush's political strategy and election campaigns, will be 
indicted or emerge unscathed. 

The prosecutor has called in numerous officials from the Bush 
administration to testify and sent a journalist from The New York Times 
to prison for refusing to reveal who she spoke to in the White House. 

The reporter, Judith Miller, who never wrote a story, was freed last 
month after 85 days in jail. She said her source gave her permission to 
discuss their conversation before a grand jury. 

Miller has identified one of her sources as Vice President Dick Cheney's 
chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. 

Another reporter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, said in July that 
Karl Rove told him Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. 

Bush has described Rove, 54, as the "architect" of his victorious re-
election campaign last year. He has earned a reputation for political 
savvy and for employing sometimes ruthless tactics against his 
opponents. 

Any indictment of Rove would deliver a damaging blow to Bush, who is 
already facing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency. 

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