[Marxism] "Capitalist tool" analyzes Rove-Cooper-Novack-Wilson deception

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although there is a gleeful aspect to this article, I am struck as to
how frank it is regarding the ability of the Bush administration to
mislead the American people. It may reflect an attitude that since
there is no point in hiding anything anymore, why not do a thorough
job of analyzing how the Bush administration machinery works.

Ancillary tidbit:
In another recent article, it was stated that the day Rove slipped
Novak the information about Valerie Plame having suggested that her
husband Joseph Wilson check out the alleged attempt of Iraq to
purchase Niger yellow-cake, it was not Rove who called Novak, but
Novak who called Rove. The implication here is that Rove did not
initiate anything, but that Novak was ferreting out information,
using his reportorial skills.

What this overlooks, however, is that Novak may regularly call Rove,
so that the two of them can plant and pass on [mis]information to the
U.S. public that promotes the Bush administration.

Brian Shannon
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Analysis: Telling FBI the Truth Saved Rove
By PETE YOST , 06.13.2006, 02:07 PM

The decision not to charge Karl Rove shows there often are no
consequences for misleading the public.

In 2003, while Rove allowed the White House to tell the news media
that he had no role in leaking Valerie Plame's CIA identity, the
presidential aide was secretly telling the FBI the truth.

It's now known that Rove had discussed Plame's CIA employment with
conservative columnist Robert Novak, who exposed her identity less
than a week later, citing two unidentified senior administration
officials.

Rove's truth-telling to the FBI saved him from indictment.

And by misleading reporters, the White House saved itself from a
political liability during the 2004 presidential campaign.

While the president and the vice president underwent questioning by
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in 2004, Rove's role never
surfaced. The lone blip on the radar screen was a one-day flurry of
news stories the month before Election Day when Rove was brought
before a federal grand jury - one of his five grand jury appearances
in the probe.
. . .
It was the Rove-Cooper conversation on July 11, 2003, that threw the
investigation back on the front pages a year ago.

Facing jail unless he cooperated with prosecutors, Cooper testified
that Rove said Wilson's wife worked at the "agency" and that she was
responsible for sending her husband on a CIA mission to Africa in
2002 to check out intelligence about Iraq.
. . .
Wilson's mission to Africa was the basis for his later criticism of
the Bush administration. In his State of the Union speech in 2003 in
the run-up to war, Bush embraced intelligence that Saddam Hussein had
recently sought significant quantities of yellowcake uranium from
Africa.
. . .
It was the Rove-Cooper conversation about Wilson's wife that became
the focus of Fitzgerald's investigative interest in the president's
political adviser.

Unlike the conversation with Novak, Rove didn't reveal it to the FBI
until more than a year into the criminal investigation of the Plame
leak.

Rove's explanation for his belated disclosure of the conversation? He
says he forgot about it.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/13/ap2812402.html

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