7.13.2006
White House Source Disclosed in Spy Scandal (Guardian.co.uk)
David Fickling and agencies
Wednesday July 12, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
The journalist at the centre of a criminal investigation into the naming of a CIA agent has revealed that top presidential aide Karl Rove played a major role in the affair.
Robert Novak, a conservative columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, admitted publicly for the first time that Mr Rove, one of George Bush's closest advisers, had been among his sources for a story outing CIA agent Valerie Plame. Publicly naming a CIA operative is a criminal offence in the US.
The affair raised suggestions that the White House was endangering national security for the sake of discrediting an Iraq war critic.
(More ... Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | White House source disclosed in spy scandal) ¶ 08:03
Wednesday July 12, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
The journalist at the centre of a criminal investigation into the naming of a CIA agent has revealed that top presidential aide Karl Rove played a major role in the affair.
Robert Novak, a conservative columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, admitted publicly for the first time that Mr Rove, one of George Bush's closest advisers, had been among his sources for a story outing CIA agent Valerie Plame. Publicly naming a CIA operative is a criminal offence in the US.
The affair raised suggestions that the White House was endangering national security for the sake of discrediting an Iraq war critic.
(More ... Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | White House source disclosed in spy scandal) ¶ 08:03
