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Cheney aide also linked to cia leak { July 18 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507180216jul18,1,2768571.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507180216jul18,1,2768571.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed Cheney aide also linked to CIA leak From Tribune news services Published July 18, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The vice president's chief of staff was a source along with the president's chief political adviser for a Time magazine article that identified a CIA officer, a Time reporter said Sunday. The disclosure further countered White House claims that neither aide was involved in the leak. Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and Karl Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff, had no connection to the leak. Last week, when Time reporter Matthew Cooper revealed that he had discussed the CIA officer with Rove, the White House declined to repeat its denials about Rove's involvement. On Sunday, the White House declined to comment about Libby, saying the investigation was ongoing. Democrats have called for President Bush to fire Rove, but Republicans have noted reports that Rove told the grand jury he learned about CIA officer Valerie Plame from a member of the news media. "Democrat partisans on ... [Capitol] Hill have engaged in a smear campaign where they have attacked Karl Rove on the basis of information which actually vindicates and exonerates him, not implicates him," said Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press." Time's Cooper said Rove was the first person to suggest to him that Plame was a CIA officer, according to a first-person account in this week's issue of the magazine. Cooper wrote that during his grand jury appearance last Wednesday, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald "asked me several different ways if Rove had indicated how he had heard that Plame worked at the CIA." Cooper said Rove did not indicate how he had heard. The account also stated that Rove said Plame had played a role in sending her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to Africa to investigate possible uranium sales to Iraq. Wilson later criticized Bush's suggestion that Iraq had been trying to buy uranium in Africa, and some Democrats have speculated that Plame's CIA role was exposed as retaliation for her husband's criticism of the administration. Cooper wrote that Rove did not mention Plame's name or say that she was a covert officer. But, he wrote, "Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the `agency' on `WMD'? Yes. "Is any of this a crime?" he added. "Beats me." Cooper wrote that Rove ended their phone conversation with the words, "I've already said too much." Cooper speculated that Rove could have been "worried about being indiscreet, or it could have meant he was late for a meeting or something else." Cooper also wrote about a conversation he initiated with Libby. Although it has been known that reporters had spoken to Libby, it was unknown what Libby had said. His conversation with Cooper is the first indication that Libby was aware of Plame's role in her husband's trip to Africa. When Cooper asked if Libby knew of that, Libby said he had heard that as well, the article said. On "Meet the Press," Cooper said that while Libby and Rove were among the unidentified government officials who provided information for the Time story, there may have been other officials who were sources. In 2003, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the idea that Rove was involved in leaking information about Plame was "ridiculous." At the time of the assurances, McClellan said he had checked directly with Rove, Libby and National Security Council official Elliott Abrams, and that none was involved in the leak. The assurance about Rove "was a lie," said John Podesta, President Bill Clinton's chief of staff. He said Rove's credibility "is in shreds."

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