RAW STORY
Published: Sunday May 7, 2006
A former government official claims to have testified to the grand jury investigating the leaking of a CIA officer's identity that Karl Rove harped about the "political importance" of countering her husband to colleagues at the White House, according to a front page story set for Monday's Washington Post, RAW STORY has found.
Excerpts from the article written by Jim VandeHei:
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Additionally, one former government official said he testified that Rove talked with White House colleagues about the political importance of defending the pre-war intelligence and countering Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. It was Wilson who publicly accused Bush of twisting intelligence about Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear material from Africa. The official refused to be named out of fear of angering Fitzgerald and the White House.
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One former aide, who would discuss internal White House discussion only if his name was not used, said Rove was intimately involved in the WMD fight and discussed various components of the plan at senior staff meetings and one-on-one strategy conversations.
The aide said Rove's message was that ``if there are no WMDs and some blame us, it will not be a pleasant election year.'' The aide said Rove talked a lot about Wilson that week, but mostly about the fact he was a Democrat and needed to be rebutted.
Luskin, Rove's attorney, said Rove's focus was not on Wilson.
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