Valerie Plame

" Cooper's article appeared three days after Novak's column was published. Rove's lawyer asserted that Rove "never knowingly disclosed classified information" and that "he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. "

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On September 30, 2003, President Bush said that if there had been "a leak" from his administration about Plame, "I want to know who it is... and if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of." Initially, the White House denied that Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter"

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In the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, as Corn observes (before its release on September 8, 2006), they consider the issue of "whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there," presenting "new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. In an interview with the authors, Douglas Rohn, a State Department officer who wrote a crucial memo related to the trip, acknowledges he may have inadvertently created a misimpression that her involvement was more significant than it had been."

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"Mrs. Wilson told the CIA Inspector General that she suggested her husband for the trip, she told our committee staff that she could not remember whether she did or her boss did, and told the House Committee, emphatically, that she did not suggest him." Also in the additional views is the full text of an e-mail message sent by Plame on February 12, 2002 to the Directorate of Operations at CPD, in which she writes that Joe Wilson "may be in a position to assist" the CIA's inquiries into the Niger reports. In a review of Plame's memoir, , Alan Cooperman writes for the Washington Post that "by her own account, Valerie Wilson neither came up with the idea of sending Joe Wilson to Nige nor approved it. But she did participate in the process and flogged her husband's credentials."

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"Valerie Plame" from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who In America ", though it was her CIA status rather than her maiden name which was a secret. Novak wrote in his column "It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA," though this assertion has been disputed. According to Murray S. Waas in the American Prospect of February 12, 2004, the CIA source warned Novak several times against the publication: two "administration officials" spoke to the FBI and challenged Novak's account about not receiving warnings not to publish Plame's name; according to one of the officials, "At best, he is parsing words ... At worst, he is lying to his readers and the public. Journalists should not lie, I would think."

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"This Administration misled Congress and the American people with their misuse of intelligence," said Plame Wilson. "The war has damaged our international credibility and our ability to provide leadership and therefore to collect intelligence that's so critical to our national security."

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"It is totally unfair and misleading to try and characterize George Bush's war as Hillary Clinton's responsibility," Wilson said, before going on the say that she had shown leadership on Iraq.

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"It was an honor to be a part of the BlogHers Act maternal health initiative and support a cause that deserves more recognition from not only our government, but also the overall female community," said Valerie Plame Wilson. "BlogHer is an amazing community of dedicated and inspirational women that are using their power online to not only support their fellow community members, but to endorse change world-wide. "

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"The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information." Plame issued a statement saying the opposite. "I am outraged to learn that former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps," Plame said. "Even more shocking, McClellan confirms that not only Karl Rove and Scooter Libby told him to lie but Vice President Cheney, presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card and President Bush also ordered McClellan to issue his misleading statement."

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"The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information," she said. Plame issued a statement saying the opposite. "I am outraged to learn that former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirms that he was sent out to lie to the press corps," Plame said.

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