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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No names, but Rove was leaker</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tim Reid, Washington</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>July 19, 2005</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15975863%255E601,00.html">http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15975863%255E601,00.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>' Cooper said Mr Rove told him that Mr Wilson's
wife had worked at CIA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>on weapons of mass destruction issues and ended the
call by saying:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"I've said too much."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Cooper] wrote : "Was it through my conversation
with Rove that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I learned that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA ...?
Yes. Did Rove</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>say that she worked at the 'agency' on 'WMD' ? Yes.
Is any of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this a crime? Beats me." '</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So Rove and 'Scooter' Libby are apparently the
leakers, but what </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>national interest if any </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>was served by their leaking? Just political</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>payback?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What crime if any was committed and what does it
matter if </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>President Bush can just pardon them
anyway?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>