Claiming he would not "add to the public record," Rove "add[ed]" to the misinformation in "the publi

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Claiming he would not "add to the public record," Rove "add" to the misinformation in "the public record" on Plame case

Summary: During a discussion of Scott McClellan's new book on Hannity & Colmes, Karl Rove said that McClellan's "questions to me were: Did I leak Valerie Plame's name? And the answer is no. In fact, we know today that the name of Valerie Plame was leaked to Robert Novak by Richard Armitage, the number two guy at the State Department, and not by me." In fact, Novak identified both Rove and Armitage as the sources for his column that revealed Plame's employment with the CIA. And former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper named Rove as his source who identified former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife as a CIA agent.

On the May 27 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Fox News political analyst Karl Rove said he would not "add to the public record" on the Valerie Plame leak case, but then added to the misinformation in "the public record" offered up by him and others connected with the case, in disputing former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's reported claim in his new book that Rove had misled him regarding Rove's involvement in the leak of Plame's identity as a covert CIA operative.

Co-host Alan Colmes asked Rove, "What about this specific charge that he is claiming that you misled him about your level of involvement in the Valerie Plame case?" Rove replied, "That's simply not true. I'm not going to add to the public record on this because there's a civil lawsuit that the Wilsons have. ... ntil that's resolved, I can't add to the public record." Nevertheless, he then said: "But the fact of the matter is, Scott's questions to me were: Did I leak Valerie Plame's name? And the answer is no." He then asserted: "In fact, we know today that the name of Valerie Plame was leaked to Robert Novak by Richard Armitage, the number two guy at the State Department, and not by me and not by Scooter Libby."

In fact, Novak has identified both Rove and Armitage as the sources for his July 14, 2003, column, which publicly revealed Plame's employment with the CIA. Former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper also named Rove as his source who identified former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife as a CIA agent during a telephone conversation on July 11, 2003.

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